Students write definitions and examples found in literature for figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification, symbol, irony, imagery, and dialect. Then, they write their own example sentences using these devices.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
