📚 Part 1: Identifying Figurative Language

"Her voice was like music to his ears."

✏️ Part 2: Creating Figurative Language

🎨 Part 3: Creative Writing Challenge

🔑 Answer Key

Part 1: Identifying Figurative Language

1. Simile (uses "like" to compare voice to music)

2. Metaphor (direct comparison without "like" or "as")

3. Personification (wind given human ability to whisper)

4. Simile (uses "as" to compare classroom to library)

Part 2: Creating Figurative Language

5. Sample answers: "a shadow," "a ghost," "falling snow," "a whisper"

6. Sample answers: "School is a stepping stone to the future," "The classroom is a garden where minds bloom," "Homework is a mountain to climb"

7. Sample answers: "The sun smiled down on the playground," "The sun stretched its golden arms across the sky," "The sun winked through the clouds"

8. Sample answers: "The rain hammered the roof like angry fists," "Raindrops danced on the windows," "The sky wept tears of silver"

Part 3: Creative Writing Challenge

9. Marking criteria:

• Contains at least one simile (comparison using "like" or "as")

• Contains at least one metaphor (direct comparison)

• Contains at least one example of personification (human qualities given to non-human things)

• Each technique is correctly labelled in brackets

• Writing is descriptive and engaging

• 4-5 sentences in length