CLASS 8 ENGLISH LESSON PLANDate : 28th April Lesson # 2Topic : Using metaphors and other literary techniques

Time : 45 minutes

Language techniques writ-ers use to enhance their de-scriptive writing : Alliteration, Personification, Rep-etition, Simile, Symbolism, Ono-matopoeia, Connotations,Pa-thetic fallacy, Metaphor

“Knowledge is a bird in a forest : no one on his or her own can ever catch it.”

(Ewe oral tradition from the Ivory Coast)

Exercise 1) What form of liter-ary technique is used here in the first phrase? What is meant by the second phrase?

Exercise 2) In your own words, describe the 9 literary tech-niques listed above

Exercise 3) Using the words below, create your own metaphors in the vein of the one above about ‘knowledge’.

Hope/Happiness/Life/Loneliness/Wisdom/Sorrow/Joy

Proof read your writing for spelling, punctuation, gram-mar and vocabulary.Hand in date : Monday 27th April

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