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Differentiated activities and worksheets about the figurative language used in the award-winning fantasy novel Skellig by David Almond.

Literary Device Match
Pupils match literary devices with their definitions and example quotes from the text. This resource has been differentiated with four levels of challenge.

Literary Device Feature Find Worksheets
Three worksheets requiring pupils to identify a range of literary devices, including figurative language, from extracts from the novel.

Imagery Identification Worksheets
Two worksheets requiring pupils to identify the type of imagery used in the novel.

The following literary devices are covered in the activities and worksheets:
• Alliteration
• Asyndeton
• Colloquialism
• Hyperbole
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Polysyndeton
• Repetition
• Rhetorical question
• Rule of three
• Show not tell
• Simile
• Varied sentence lengths
• Withholding information

Extracts and answer sheets are included for each activity and worksheet.

Each resource comes as an easily editable Word document and in PDF format.

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