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Figurative Language and Literary Devices Lab
Students sort figurative lines, tag devices, decode idioms and phrases in context and analyze what each device does.
Grades 3–12Virtual lab · 5 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline
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Grade versions included
- Grades 3–5: Literal vs. figurative, five basic devices, idioms, building similes and metaphors and an original poem
- Grades 6–8: Eight devices including allusion and oxymoron, connotation, interpreting phrases and device effects
- Grades 9–12: Metonymy, paradox, irony types, Dickinson's extended metaphor and public-domain passages from Shakespeare and others
What students practice
Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, idioms, onomatopoeia, connotation, irony, extended metaphor, analyzing a device's effect on meaning and tone
Standards
OAS Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing; Standard 4: Vocabulary
Common Core: RL.4 · RI.4 · L.5
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- Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
- The download has a separate file for each grade band. Open the one that fits your class.
- Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
- Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
- Each purchase includes the lab files and a one-page Quick Start guide.
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