Prompt
1.Students will write an opening sentence explaning the difference between similes and mataphors.

2.Look at the underlined examples of figurative language in both poems below:

Poem 1:

Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the grave!—
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.

Poem 2:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.



3.Choose 2-3 expressions to write about and explain their meaning in context (1-2 sentences).