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Sound Devices and Figurative Language - Metaphor - Print - Fiction Resources

 * 3-5**


 * //Black Cat,// by Christopher Myers. 0-590-03375-1 . As a black cat walks through the city, many forms of figuarative language are used, including metaphors: "concrete creeps down our city streets," and "brick music falling from project windows."


 * //Come On, Rain!// by Karen Hesse. 0-590-33125-6 . This picture book follows a girl waiting for rain to break a drought and is filled with figurative language, including metaphors - "The smell of garbage bullies the air," and the girl's friend stands on her steps with long legs that "sprout from her shorts."


 * //Faraway Home,// by Jane Kurtz. 0-395-61584-4. An immigration read aloud with Social Studies connections and metaphors - "flamingos flap in a pink cloud.'


 * //The Leanin' Dog,// by K.A. Nuzum. 0-06-113934-3. This chapter book about a girl mourning her mom's death is filled with metaphors - "the steel latch on the cabin door was as cold as death to my fingers," and frigid claws of air sliced as my face."


 * //Red Flower Goes West,// by Ann Turner. 0-7868-0313-4. An ELA/Social Studies resource - this read aloud describes westward expansion, with the red flower serving as a symol of their journey.


 * 6-8**


 * //[|"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day, Sonnet 18"]// by William Shakespeare This website offers a copy of this poem along with other poems to teach metaphors.