FEB27 Figurative Language

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Grade 4 Read/Write

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February 24, 2025

Unit 5: Poetry: Wondrous Words

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Materials

Student

Teacher

● Moonlight and Paul Revere’s Ride

Chart

● Amplify Paul Revere’s Ride

● Notes that you will annotate

● Amplify Reader- “Anthology:

Personal Narratives and Poetry”

● Response Cards

● Slide Deck
● Amplify Reader- “Anthology:

Personal Narratives and Poetry”

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Do Now

1. Read the sentence and make
any necessary corrections.

For the first few block, everything
are fine.

2. Read the sentence and make
any necessary corrections.

The skies was gray, so no rain drop
felled.

Open Ended

.Read the sentence and make any necessary corrections.

For the first few block, everything are fine

Type the WHOLE sentence with corrections.

Open Ended

Read the sentence and make any necessary corrections.

The skies was gray, so no rain drop felled.

Type the WHOLE correct sentence.

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LO:

SWBAT examine how the author’s use of

imagery, literal and figurative language, and sound
devices contributes to voice.

DOL: Given a poem, students will correctly examine
how the author’s use of imagery, literal and
figurative language, and sound devices contributes
to voice in at least 4 of 5 questions.

Unit 5: Poetry: Wondrous Words

Ⓢ ELA 4.10D describe how the author's use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as

alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes

Ⓢ ELA.4.10F Discuss how the author’s use of language contributes to voice.

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author’s voice

(noun)

sound devices

(noun)

techniques that writers use
to convey meaning through

the way words sound

figurative language

(noun)

words or expressions
that mean something

different from their
dictionary definitions

Academic Vocabulary

the individual writing

style of

an author

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Words or expression that means something to different is called ​

Select answer

Sound devices are sound ​

Select answer

. ​

Select answer

is the the individual writing style of an author.

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HOT Question

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is a form of literary
expression that
conveys thoughts,
feelings, or ideas in
a creative and
artistic way.

Structure:

★ lines
★ line break
★ stanzas
★ stanza

breaks

Meter pattern:

●rhyme

●rhythm

Uses:

●figurative and descriptive
language

●sound devices

●sensory details

●imagery, etc.

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Who writes this genre?

Groups of words/phrases are
called …

Groups of lines are called …

At the end of a line, there is…

At the end of the stanza,
there is

Elements of Poetry

My Loves

By: Anonymous

I love to see the big white moon,
A-shining in the sky;
I love to see the little stars,
When the shadow clouds go by.

I love the rain drops falling
On my roof-top in the night;
I love the soft wind’s sighing,
Before the dawn’s gray light.

Title

Poet

Line

Stanza
break

Stanza

Lines

Stanzas

Line
Break

Stanza
break

Poet

Line
break

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What are these?

Free Verse Poem

★ no set line length
★ no set rhythm
★ no rhythm pattern
★ conveys feelings and ideas

Lyrical Poem

★ expresses strong feelings
★ can rhyme
★ sounds like a song

Humorous Poem

★ is funny
★ can be silly
★ can rhyme

Narrative Poem

★ tells a story
★ can rhyme
★ has characters, setting, and

a plot

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Types of Poems

Free Verse Poem

★ no set line length
★ no set rhythm
★ no rhythm pattern
★ conveys feelings and ideas

Lyrical Poem

★ expresses strong feelings
★ can rhyme
★ sounds like a song

Humorous Poem

★ is funny
★ can be silly
★ can rhyme

Narrative Poem

★ tells a story
★ can rhyme
★ has characters, setting, and

a plot

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Types of Language

Literal Language

The use of words,
phrases, and
sentences in their
real or actual sense.

Figurative Language

Language not
intended to be taken
literally but layered
with meaning using
imagery

The classroom was a zoo when the new teacher arrived.

Let’s Review!

Let’s Review!

“Figurative Language” Anchor Chart from HMH – used with permission © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

What is the
difference

between similes,
metaphors, and
personification?

The difference between similes,
metaphors, and personification
is…

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Sound Devices

Rhyme

words with the same
ending sounds at the
end of lines or stanzas.

Alliteration

same sound or letter
at the beginning of
words or lines.

Techniques that writers use to convey meaning

through the way words sound.

Let’s Review!

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Sound Devices

Onomatopoeia

a word that imitates the
natural sound of the
thing it describes.

Assonance

repetition of vowel
sounds that occurs
within words close
together in a line.

Repetition

same sound or letter
at the beginning of
words or lines.

Let’s Review!

________ voice

★is the unique and distinct

style, tone, and personality
that an author uses

★writers change their voices

to share ideas with different
readers

Author’s Voice

★is the unique and distinct

style, tone, and personality
that an author uses

★writers change their voices

to share ideas with different
readers

What is

Author’s Voice?

Author’s Voice is ...

Author’s show
voice by using…

★____________ words
★questions
★__________ out ideas
★emotional tone
★________ of rhyme and rhythm
★_________ devices
★personal _______________

Author’s show
voice by using…

★interesting words
★questions
★stretching out ideas
★emotional tone
★patterns of rhyme and rhythm
★sound devices
★personal perspectives

Let’s analyze poets’ voices!

Harlem

by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—

The New Colossus

by Emma Lazarus

With silent lips. “Give me your tired,
your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming
shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-
tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

What are
similarities

and

differences
between the
poet’s voices?

A poet’s use of imagery, literal and figurative
language, and sound devices can contribute to voice
by…

How can a poet’s use of

imagery, literal and

figurative language, and

sound devices contribute to

voice?

Moonlight

The sun fades,
and the day is done.
The moon is a nightlight,
casting a glow.

5 Casting shadows in the night,

the moon starts it’s show.
But once the night is done,
the moon fades.

Figurative Language

Does the author use
the following in the

poem?

Imagery

Sound Devices

Moonlight

The sun fades,
and the day is done.
The moon is a nightlight,
casting a glow.

5 Casting shadows in the night,

the moon starts it’s show.
But once the night is done,
the moon fades.

How does the poet’s use
of figurative language in
lines 3 and 4 of the poem
contribute to the poet’s

voice?

How does the poet’s use of figurative language in lines 3
and 4 of the poem contribute to the poet’s voice?

A. By suggesting that the poet views the moon as a

comforting presence

B. By showing that the poet likes using nightlights to see in

the dark

C. By showing that the poet thinks only night lights are

bright

D. By suggesting that the poet knows how bright different

lights are

Multiple Choice

How does the poet’s use of figurative language in lines 3 and 4 of the poem contribute to the poet’s voice? 

• a

• b

• c

• d

How does the poet’s use of figurative language in lines 3
and 4 of the poem contribute to the poet’s voice?

A. By suggesting that the poet views the moon as a

comforting presence

B. By showing that the poet likes using nightlights to see in

the dark

C. By showing that the poet thinks only night lights are

bright

D. By suggesting that the poet knows how bright different

lights are

A could be correct because the metaphor compares
the moon to a nightlight which is a source of comfort.

B is incorrect. The metaphor doesn't tell us anything about the
poet's personal use of nightlights

C is incorrect.The metaphor shows the poet thinks the moon is also
bright

D is incorrect.The metaphor doesn't tell us anything about
the poet's scientific knowledge on light

O?

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Paul Revere's

Ride

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belfry
(noun)

a bell tower or

steeple housing bells,
especially one that is

part of a church

sombre

(noun)

dark or dull in color or

tone; gloomy

stealthy
(adjective)

behaving in a

cautious manner, so
as not to be seen or

heard

Content Vocabulary

Draw

Pick a vocabulary word and then draw it.

What mood is created by the

language used in the poem “Paul

Revere’s Ride”?

The language used in

the poem creates a

_______ mood.

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The language used in the poem creates a _______

mood.

Did you annotate?

Paul Revere’s Ride

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”

“Paul Revere's Ride”

Figurative Language

or

Imagery

or

Sound Device

How does this line contribute to the voice

of the poem?

A phantom ship, with each mast and
spar
Across the moon like a prison bar

The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,

And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!

“Paul Revere's Ride”

Figurative Language

or

Imagery

or

Sound Device

How does this line contribute to the voice

of the poem?

A phantom ship, with each mast and
spar
Across the moon like a prison bar

By showing how the British warship
appeared threatening as it blocked the
moonlight

By suggesting how everything was
quiet and careful that night.

By showing that the author believes
moments of discovery deserve dramatic
emphasis.

The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,

And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!

simile

personification

imagery

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“Paul Revere's Ride” Vocabulary

Word: tranquil

Definition:

Text: And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,

Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides

Synonym

Antonym

Example

peaceful

busy

The tranquil garden
was filled with
butterflies and the
soft humming of
bumblebees.

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“Paul Revere's Ride” Vocabulary

Word: tranquil

Definition: free from disturbance; calm (noun)

Text: And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,

Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides

Synonym

Antonym

Example

peaceful

busy

The tranquil garden
was filled with
butterflies and the
soft humming of
bumblebees.

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But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight

A second lamp in the belfry burns!

Read lines 67 and 68 from the poem.

How does the author’s use of imagery in this line of the poem
contribute to the poet’s voice?

A. By suggesting that the poet developed expertise in light effects from

stargazing

B. By showing that the author believes that moments of discovery offer a

sense of anticipation

C. By suggesting that the author developed a love of dramatic moments by

watching church towers as a child

D. By showing that light should only be used for sending messages

Multiple Choice

How does the author’s use of imagery in this line of the poem contribute to the poet’s voice?

• a

• b

• c

• d

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But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight

A second lamp in the belfry burns!

Read lines 67 and 68 from the poem.

How does the author’s use of imagery in this line of the poem contribute
to the poet’s voice?

A. By suggesting that the poet developed expertise in light effects from

stargazing

B. By showing that the author believes that moments of discovery offer a

sense of anticipation

C. By suggesting that the author developed a love of dramatic moments

by watching church towers as a child

D. By showing that light should only be used for sending messages

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What does the friend see far away
where the river meets the bay? Why

is this moment important?

The friend sees… This moment is
important because…

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Where the river widens to meet the bay,—
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.

What does the friend see far away where the river

meets the bay? Why is this moment important?

The friend sees… This moment
is important because…

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Where the river widens to meet the bay,—
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.

What does the friend see far away where the river

meets the bay? Why is this moment important?

The friend sees… This moment is
important because…

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How does the poet’s use

of figurative language
throughout the poem
contribute to the poet’s

voice?

The poet’s use of figurative language
throughout the poem contribute to the
poet’s voice by…

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SCR

Look-fors in SCR responses:
❏ A complete response will provide

one of the possible responses.

❏ Evidence is accurately used to

support the response.

❏ The response and the evidence to

support it are based on the text.

1 point

2 points

How does the poet’s use of figurative language throughout the
poem contribute to the poet’s voice? Support your answer using
evidence from the text.

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The poet’s use of figurative language throughout the poem
contributes to the poet’s voice by showing that he believes
significant moments in history deserve detailed descriptions. For
example, he compares the British ship to "a prison bar" across
the moon, which makes it seem scary and threatening. He makes
the wind seem like a person by describing it as "watchful" and
"creeping along from tent to tent.” These examples of figurative
language show that the poet wants readers to experience the
fear and tension of that historical night.

How does the poet’s use of figurative language throughout the
poem contribute to the poet’s voice? Support your answer using
evidence from the text.

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Can you identify the

sound device used by the

poet on pg.88?

Be ready to annotate!

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A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo forevermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

PAGE88

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A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,

Read line 122 from the poem.

How does this line contribute to the voice

of the poem?

This line contributes to the voice of the poem by…

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A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,

Read line 122 from the poem.

How does the author’s use of sound devices in this line of the poem
contribute to the poet’s voice?

A. By suggesting that the author developed a love of sound devices by

reading poetry aloud.

B. By showing that the author believes in using sound devices to express

happiness.

C. By suggesting that the author uses sound devices to create cheerful

moments in poetry.

D. By showing that the author believes that sound devices offer a sense

of mystery.

Multiple Choice

How does the author’s use of sound devices in this line of the poem
contribute to the poet’s voice?

• a

• b

• c

• d

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A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,

Read line 122 from the poem.

How does the author’s use of sound devices in this line of the poem
contribute to the poet’s voice?

A. By suggesting that the author developed a love of sound devices by

reading poetry aloud.

B. By showing that the author believes in using sound devices to express

happiness.

C. By suggesting that the author uses sound devices to create cheerful

moments in poetry.

D. By showing that the author believes that sound devices offer a sense

of mystery.

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HOT Question

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Real World Connection

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DOL: Given a poem,
students will correctly
examine how the author’s
use of imagery, literal and
figurative language, and
sound devices contributes
to voice in at least 4 of 5
questions.

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