Monsters on Maple St. Figurative Language
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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling
Lesson Plans by Rebecca Ray
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street was originally an episode of the 1960s television show The Twilight Zone, which was later made into a graphic novel. The story deals with human nature and paranoia, and is a great tool for teaching themes, lessons, and morals in the classroom.
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Monsters on Maple St. Figurative Language
Storyboard Text
- Slide: 1
- METAPHOR
- That new family is kind of weird...
- Aliens, oh no!
- “Maple Street was a bedlam. It was an outdoor asylum for the insane.”
- Slide: 2
- SIMILE
- Look, the lights are back on!
- They blinked foolishly at the lights and their mouths gaped like fishes
- Slide: 3
- ONOMATOPOEIA
- What's that?!
- Everyone on the street looked up at the sound of the whoosh.
- Slide: 4
- METAPHOR
- Let's find the person and get em'!
- A fever had taken hold now, a hot burning virus...
- Slide: 5
- SIMILE
- I know who it is! It's TOMMY! He knows too much!
- Like a hippopotamus in a circus
- Slide: 6
- PERSONIFCATION
- The dull, dumb, blind prejudice of the man
- Slide: 0
- ...for the last time, I stay up at night because I have insomnia!
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