Poetry Figurative Language and Form Slides & Escape Room Reading Activity
Poetry Figurative Language and Form Slides & Escape Room Reading Activity: This poetry form and figurative language reading escape room style challenge is a new and fun way to engage your students and improve their understanding of poetry devices and structure! The detailed presentation introduces elements of poetic form (stanza, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, meter, repetition) and poetic devices (metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, oxymoron) with definitions and examples for each. The highlight of the resource is the engaging escape room-style challenge, where students read an original narrative back story where they must find a rainbow treasure. Then, they must collaborate in groups to crack a poetry form and figurative language-related challenge to unlock the solution and find the passphrase to open the treasure box!
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Included in This Poetry Form and Figurative Language Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity:
➡️ Poetry Form and Figurative Language Presentation Slides: Use these PowerPoint presentation slides to guide the poetry lesson and activity with instructional slides on elements of poetic form (stanza, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, meter, repetition) and poetic devices (metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, oxymoron). Also included are activity prompts, the narrative story text, story conclusion slides, and answer keys for review.
➡️ Find the Rainbow Treasure Narrative Back Story: Next, students are ready to put what they have learned into action! They will begin the challenge by reading a short backstory that sets up the escape room challenge. Students reach the end of the rainbow only to find a treasure box containing poems, cards, and clues instead of the expected gold. Suspicious yet intrigued, they delve into the challenge presented by the poetic instructions, determined to uncover the true nature of this unexpected treasure.
➡️ Poetry Form and Figurative Language Escape Room Style Challenge: In this interactive escape-room style poetry form and figurative language challenge, students must read an original short story and four original poems to determine the form and literary devices used to reveal a hidden passphrase to open the treasure box.
Poetry Terms and Devices Included in this Activity:
- Stanza
- Rhyme scheme
- Internal rhyme
- Meter
- Repetition
- Metaphor
- Simile
- Onomatopoeia
- Alliteration
- Personification
- Hyperbole
- Oxymoron
How This Poetry Form and Figurative Language Escape Room Challenge Reading Activity Works:
- Use the PowerPoint presentation to guide you through each element of the poetry form and figurative language lesson and activity. The slides will help you teach about elements of poetic form (stanza, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, meter, repetition) and poetic devices (metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, oxymoron). It will also introduce the story and challenge, and review the answers.
- Read the narrative story as a class to hook students and introduce the poetry form and figurative language activity challenge.
- Once you have taught students about the different poetry terms and devices and read the story, students are ready to try the reading challenge!
- When students find the answer, you can share the conclusion slides to wrap up the story.
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