Figurative Language Escape Room Activity - Literary Devices Breakout Review

Help your students understand figurative language with this highly engaging figurative language escape room breakout activity. In this interactive literary devices escape room, students move around the classroom, visiting multiple stations and completing puzzles, challenges, and problem-solving tasks focused on key figurative language and literary devices. Students practice identifying and applying metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, oxymoron, pun, idiom, and allusion as they work collaboratively to crack codes and unlock clues. This hands-on figurative language escape room activity encourages critical thinking, discussion, and movement, making it a fun activity your students will love.

How The Figurative Language Escape Room Activity Works:

Students work in small groups and circulate to five different stations, completing tasks related to figurative language and literary devices. The goal of this literary devices escape room is to successfully complete each station and collect mystery code words that allow students to escape.

• Hidden Word: At the first station, students label examples of figurative language and record their answers to reveal a mystery word.
• Poetry Close Reading: At the second station, students complete a close reading of the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth and answer multiple-choice questions focused on figurative language. Their answers reveal a code word.
• Figurative Language Puzzle Writing: At the third station, students assemble three puzzles that reveal writing topics. Students then write a sentence about each topic using a specific type of figurative language.
• Famous Figurative Language: At the fourth station, students identify figurative language used in famous historical quotes and match each quote to both the speaker and the type of figurative language to uncover a code word.
• The Encryption Station: At the final station, students decode an encrypted message using hidden symbols found throughout the literary devices escape room, ultimately revealing a quote.

Please note that students should already be familiar with the following terms before completing the figurative language escape room: metaphor, simile, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, oxymoron, pun, idiom, and allusion.

➡️ Figurative Language Escape Room Answer Booklet: Students will use this booklet to record the mystery words they uncover at each station throughout the escape room. A complete answer key is included.

➡️ Reflection and Response Assignments: Two reflection assignments are included for students to complete after the literary devices escape room activity. One focuses on the text revealed in the final puzzle, and the other allows students to reflect on their experience with the escape room activity.

Types of Figurative Language Covered in this Literary Devices Escape Room:

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Pun
• Allusion
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

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