“The Highwayman” is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in 1906. It tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord’s daughter.
In this lesson, students will learn how figurative language creates imagery and will be shown examples of a simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia.
They will then look at figurative language examples used in the poem through the online activity link and will be tasked to identify examples and write what these examples do for the reader,
Finally, they will write their own versions of part of the poem using their own figurative language examples.
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