Poetry Genre: Characteristics and Most Commonly Used Figurative Language Boom! Cards (TM)

This Boom! Deck gives your student-scholars the basics of Poetry as a genre. It provides student-friendly definitions and examples of 5 characteristics common to all poetry, and the most commonly used figurative language types. The set covers the characteristics of Form, Meter, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Sound, and the figurative language types of Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Irony, and Hyperbole. This set has 12 direct teach, 1 instructional, and 33 task cards, and has been set to randomize 12 task cards per play.

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ELA in Middle School proudly uses Ron Lieshman’s Digital Toonage “Teachers” and “School Kids” sets in this Deck of Boom Cards!

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