Identify the Language Feature

I created this activity to help students identify simple language features - simile, metaphor, personification and alliteration.

There is a board onto which the langauge feature cards can be sorted and several sheets of cards with a variety of the language features listed above.

There are probably more cards than you will want to use at once, but hopefully this means that pupils will not get to know the cards by heart too quickly - and you can always add more of your own.

I have stuck with these basic language features as I find they are often the ones most confused by my students and they are also ones for which it is easier to give obvious examples.

I think this activity could be played with both upper KS2 and KS3 pupils in either a one-to-one session or with a small group of two or three pupils - each pupil could have their own board and see who ended up with the most correct answers.