ELA-FigLang-Metap-LNF

Sound Devices and Figurative Language - Metaphor - Print - Literary Nonfiction

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 * //"Child Frightened by a Thunderstorm,"// by Ted Kooser. Poem in //Cobwebs, Chatters and Chills, A Collection of Scary Poems,// Compiled by Patricia Stockland. 0-7565-0565-8 In this short poem. a young girl is frightened in her bed as she imagines thunder as a large bird, with wings and beaks.
 * //"Hope"//, by Emma Lazarus. Poem in //The Free and the Brave, A Collection of Poems about the United States,// by Patricia Stockland. 0-7565-0563-1 The United States offers a golden door to immigrants, representing hope and freedom.


 * //If America Were a Village,// by David J. Smith. 978-1-55453-344-2. Good ELA/Social Studies connection. The book presents a metaphor for the United States, as a village of one hundred people to describe ethnicity, religion, occupations and other demography.

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 *  //"Tiger"//, by Valerie Worth. Poem in //Fur, Fangs and Footprints, A Collection of Poems About Animals.// Compiled by Patricia Stockland. 0-7565-0562-3 A tiger with black flames in his fur and rays from his eyes - did he swallow a black sun? This poem uses a metaphor to give unusual qualities to a tiger in the zoo.
 * //Wonderful Nature, Wonderful You,// by Karin Ireland. 978-1-883220-47-1 Shapes the qualities of nature into a metaphor for positive values and self-esteem.