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UPDATED! This PowerPoint game is the MOST FUN way to review literary terms and figurative language! Pictures and sound clips from popular movies, tv shows, and songs are divided into five rounds of play with five clips each. Each clip demonstrates a literary device or figurative language, including simile, metaphor, assonance, alliteration, verbal irony, internal rhyme, allusion, etc. Turn review time into game time! I divide the class into small tables of boys and small tables of girls. One person at each table is chosen to write the answers. During the game, you click on the sound icon, the clip plays (I usually let the students listen to the clip twice), the tables deliberate quietly, each writer jots down their team's answer, and then you move on to the next clip. At the end of the round, the tables quickly exchange papers and you click to the answer slide. Papers are then returned and a new round begins. This is a wonderful review for a Friday or just before a lit. terms exam. There's no reason why reviewing shouldn't be fun! Clips include Tommy Boy, Bon Jovi, Top Gun, Armageddon, Independence Day, Happy Gilmore, Homer Simpson, Grease, and many more! Enjoy!
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45 Minutes
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44
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neecy
My kids loved this. Pat yourself on the back.
May 8, 2013 
ncrowder
Super fun!
May 8, 2013
erickandaisy
Kids loved it
May 3, 2013
rkillen
Love this activity. The only problem I had was that students couldn't always "catch" the sound files because they went so fast. I just created some handouts with the quotes from the sound files. Problem solved. This was a fun and effective review activity. Highly recommended.
April 30, 2013
JackFab
Absolutely LOVED this game. What a great way to review figurative language. My grade 11s had a lot of fun! I would definitely buy more games like this one!
April 29, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Thanks! Glad you liked it! I have a sequel available in my store, if your students are up for another version of the Battle! ;)
April 29, 2013
pshuck
Rats! Did 1075704 ever figure out how to open this on Mac? I can't seem to get the audio to work on PC, either. I wondered if I need to link the pwpt to the audio files?
April 26, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
I'm sorry, pshuch, I don't know how to help you. I've never heard back from the other Mac user. Please let me know if you fix it and how you did it! Thanks!
April 27, 2013
jojomdeg
This is a great way to motivate students to learn!
April 21, 2013
eharmsen
great!
April 21, 2013
atronce
Great resource
April 13, 2013
lmadero09
What an excellent resource! I wish I could take the credit for it!
March 24, 2013
Jaimek3
great and fun!!
March 21, 2013
1075704
Unfortunately I could not open this with my Mac. I do have PowerPoint.
March 9, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Oh, I am very sorry. I don't know what the problem could be. I might be able to help you if you give me more details about any kind of error messages that pop up when you try to open it. I don't own a Mac, but we can try to make it work. :)
March 10, 2013
tmlane1
Great! Kids love it.
March 4, 2013
cheraw57
Absolutely fabulous! I hope you'll create more presentations with other contemporary music that high schoolers will love. Great job!!!!!
February 23, 2013
ebelland
Can't wait to try it!
February 14, 2013
iceprincess09
absolutely loved this product!
February 8, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Thank you so much! Be sure to check out the sequel, which is available in my store as well. :)
February 9, 2013
gparker1
Had the teacher's class in the next room dancing! Kids loved it! Nice job!
February 8, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Thanks so much! Battle of the Sexes 2 is available in my store as well, if your class wants a rematch! ;)
February 9, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Thanks so much, Robyn! The sequel is available in my store, too, if your class demands a rematch (mine always did!).
February 9, 2013
deanawilliams
Thanks!
January 31, 2013
Lisa Calvin
This should be fun for my battling guys and gals! Thanks!
January 23, 2013
5kids1dog
Just played it with the 8th graders and we had a BLAST!! Thanks for all of your hard work - it was a great way to show them that words can be FUN!! ;)
January 23, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Thanks so much; I'm very glad your class enjoyed it! The sequel is available in my store, as well, if the kids demand a rematch! ;)
February 9, 2013
Joantroj
Great activity!
January 19, 2013
chadwick1953
My Kids loved it.
January 19, 2013
asj9437
I would hide the music icon. It is a great tool!
January 12, 2013
JMNelson05
This looks like a great "refresher" for my classes before we jump right into literary analysis (poetry, prose, etc.). The only change I would make would be to put the info. into a Prezi slide, since my kiddos seem to really enjoy that spatially interactive format. Overall, definitely worth the purchase. Thanks for posting it!
January 7, 2013
missyavi
My students understood most of these so it was great! I modified it a bit.
January 6, 2013
slhusseypack
Looking forward to using this in class!
January 6, 2013
heathertheriot
My students LOVED this game!
January 3, 2013
mijoy
Thanks for a great product!
January 3, 2013
mwpunsalan
Spectacular. This is bound to be a hit. Do you have more Power Points like this?
January 2, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Yes, there is a sequel to Battle of the Sexes! You should be able to find it listed on here, if not, please let me know. Glad you like it! :)
January 2, 2013
Jgrow01
too funny!
January 1, 2013
DoctorR
Cute and engaging! Students loved it!
December 30, 2012
itsinthestars
I used this for 8th graders. I added the figurative language examples to the slides. I loved this activity!! Thank you!
December 14, 2012
margebrisky
I know my students will have a ball with this!
December 9, 2012
lakes2005
Great activity the students will enjoy.
December 3, 2012
erintrecker
So fun!!!! :)
November 13, 2012
Marixa Gonzalez (TpT Seller)
I am sure my students will love this, I always try to find new ways to review my lessons.
October 31, 2012
jgteach2reach
Can't wait to use this with my 8th graders! Thank you.
October 27, 2012
hradford
My 9th graders loved this game! (And so did I) Great product!!
October 14, 2012
stefaniekirk
This kept my freshman so engaged. I love this product! Can't wait to use with my sophomores! Thank you.
October 8, 2012
matoss
will use components
September 23, 2012
Dawn Naylor (TpT Seller)
Can't wait to use this with my 8th graders. They will love this.
September 8, 2012
caterpillar49
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this! I played the game with my sophomores this morning and they had so much fun--more fun than I was expecting! The examples are timely and helpful and the pictures and sound clips are great. Love the "bad to the bone" photo. Worth every penny, highly recommended. Make more!
September 6, 2012
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
So glad you liked it! I also have a sequel to this game available for sale on this site if you're looking for another one! :)
September 6, 2012
katiesk25
This is amazing! Worth every penny!
September 5, 2012
nikkigregor
This is fantastic. They will love this!
August 31, 2012
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margaretbatts
Thanks so much for this awesome game! I just bought it and tried to use it with Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 and I can't get any of the sounds to work. I was really hoping to use it for my class, but not sure how to make those work! How do I find out what clips you used and maybe I can try and reconstruct my own? Any help would be great!
Thanks!
Thanks!
May 17, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
I'm very sorry that it's not working for you. I found most of my sound clips from http://www.wavsource.com/ . I wish I could help more; I don't know what the problem could be. :(
May 18, 2013
dpthattsme
Hi Melody!
I really love what you have created, however, I have 5th graders and I would like to add music clips the same way you have added clips from movies and television. How did you go about doing that exactly? I'd like to take some things out and add some in, but I'm unsure as to how I can do that?
I really love what you have created, however, I have 5th graders and I would like to add music clips the same way you have added clips from movies and television. How did you go about doing that exactly? I'd like to take some things out and add some in, but I'm unsure as to how I can do that?
February 5, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Hi there! I'm glad you like the game! To be honest, it's been probably six or seven years since I originally created the game, and I've been staying at home with my little girls for over five years, so I'm really out of practice. I just remember saving .wav files to my computer and then inserting them into PowerPoint. I'm sure that doesn't help much, and I do apologize. Good luck with it all!
February 5, 2013
JMNelson05
I just purchased the review (desperately needed something interactive like this for Wednesday, 01/09/13). sadly, my sound links/clips are refusing to play. Any ideas on how to make the clips work or what I may be doing wrong? I purchased, immediately downloaded, and updated my Abode software for the game. Am I missing anything??? Please let me know ASAP, as I'd love to use it THIS WEEK. Thanks!
January 7, 2013
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Hello, and thanks for purchasing the game! It works in MS PowerPoint, have you tried that? If you don't have MS Powerpoint, you can try using the free Powerpoint Viewer that can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6
Please let me know how it goes! I haven't had any complaints about the game, so I'm not sure what else it could be. I really hope it works out!
Please let me know how it goes! I haven't had any complaints about the game, so I'm not sure what else it could be. I really hope it works out!
January 8, 2013
Anna Campos (TpT Seller)
This looks like fun! My question is do the students just have to listen and find the figurative language and then label it? I know that sounds redundant, but I'm just not sure if there's a question slide or they know they're looking to ID the phrase and figurative language type. Thank you!
October 3, 2012
Melody Stroud (TpT Seller)
Hi Anna! The students listen to the movie/tv/music clip and then they have a second to discuss in their groups to find the figurative language. It could be anything from alliteration, irony, simile, etc. There's no specific question slide, just the clip. I hope that helps! Thanks for looking, Anna!
October 3, 2012
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