Figurative Language and Author’s Craft: Reading Unit 3, Grade 6 (Letters & Devotion)

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Figurative Language and Author’s Craft is Unit 3 of Reading, Reasoning, and Writing: Grade 6 English Language Arts (Grade 6), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 57 pages.

• Simile and metaphor as structured comparisons between two unlike things
• The shared quality connecting the two terms of a comparison
• Personification’s effect on the tone of a passage
• Connotation vs. denotation of near-synonyms
• The effect of connotative word substitution on reader impression
• Allusion as a compressed reference to shared cultural or textual knowledge
• The irreplaceability of figurative wording — why the meaning conveyed has no literal equivalent, not only what a restatement omits
• Figurative devices (simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, connotation) as they occur across two unseen texts of different genres
• Disagreements about device classification in ambiguous or borderline figurative lines

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.