This product contains 50 pages of figurative language activities and related poetry activities based on original poems and well known stories and poems that continue to be engaging. The resource is suitable as a comprehensive 'common core' aligned poetry resource for explicitly teaching figurative language and aural techniques.Content includes:Poetry and short story activities featuring the figurative technique simile - 'The Daisy' by Hans Christian Anderson, 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe and