Listing, Cliché, and Contrast (Grades 7 and 8)
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Listing, Cliché, and Contrast (Grades 7 and 8)
Language features for Grades 7 and 8: name listing, cliché, and contrast in sentences, explain the effect of a list and of a contrast, find a cliché and say why it weakens a review, name the features in a speech, then rewrite a cliché and write with listing, contrast, hyperbole, or a pun, explaining the intended effect. With an answer key.
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Listing, Cliché, and ContrastA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Pages
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- About 20 minutes
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- Related curriculum
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Tell a hyperbole from a literal sentence and say what it really means, work out what an allusion to a myth, fable, book or event means and where it comes from, see what a speaker using verbal irony really means, spot a pun, and say what an extended metaphor compares.
Reviewed by Mr. James Anderson, Teacher and Mr. Michael Sullivan, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child say what the words really mean in plain words.
- For similes and metaphors, have the child name the two things compared and what they share.
- Look for figurative language in songs, ads and books afterwards.
Common mistakes
- Calling every comparison a simile. A simile uses like or as.
- Reading idioms literally, such as "it is raining cats and dogs".
- Mixing up personification, giving a thing human actions, and a metaphor.
