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Inside Out and Back Again Figurative Language More options
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Activity Overview


There are many examples of figurative language present throughout the novel Inside Out and Back Again. In this activity, students will identify figurative language such as similes, metaphors, personification, etc. and illustrate the examples from the text.

Examples of Figurative Language in Inside Out and Back Again

  • "Like laundry being wrung dry"
  • "Hovering like a blanket"
  • "Like clusters of eyes, wet and crying"
  • “How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?”
  • “Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?”

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Objective: Create a storyboard that identifies figurative language such as similes, metaphors or personification found in Inside Out and Back Again. Illustrate each and write a short description below each cell.

Student Instructions:

  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. Identify figurative language from Inside Out and Back Again you wish to include and type them in the title box at the top.
  3. Create an image for examples that represent each symbol using appropriate scenes, characters and items.
  4. Write a description of each of the examples in the black text box.

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Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level 6-8

Difficulty Level 3 (Developing to Mastery)

Type of Assignment Individual

Type of Activity: Figurative Language

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Figurative Language in a Story
Create a storyboard that shows three examples of figurative language from the story: metaphors, similes, personification, etc. Include the type of figurative language in the title box along with the quote from the story. In the description box describe what the figurative language means in the context of the story. Add appropriate illustrations for each.
Proficient Emerging Beginning
Examples of Figurative Language
There are three examples of figurative language.
There are two correct examples of figurative language.
Only one of the examples of figurative language is correct.
Types of Figurative Language
All three examples are correctly identified as simile, metaphor, or personification (or other) in the title box.
Two examples of figurative language are correctly identified as simile, metaphor, or personification (or other).
Only one example of figurative language is correctly identified as simile, metaphor, or personification (or other).
Illustrations
Illustrations depict the example of figurative language from the story with clear visuals of appropriate scenes, characters, items, etc.
Illustrations depict the example of figurative language from the story but are unclear or incomplete.
Illustrations do not make sense with the examples chosen.
Descriptions
There are descriptions for all three example of figurative language that correctly explain what the figurative language means in the context of the story.
One of the descriptions is missing or the descriptions do not fully explain what the figurative language means in the context of the story.
Two or more descriptions are missing or they do not explain what the figurative language means.


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