OXYMORON: FIGURE OF SPEECH

by JOHN DSOUZA

Price: 300 points or $3 USD

Subjects: ela

Grades: 6,7,8,9,10

Description: These Boom Cards are perfect for teaching Figurative Speech – Oxymoron. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these self-grading exercises that are gamified for student engagement. After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based Boom Cards students will be able to: • Define oxymoron with examples. • State the similarities and the differences between oxymoron, paradox and irony. • Examine the examples of oxymoron to identify what reference they make. • Interpret a given text and identify the examples of oxymoron and say what is oxymoronic in them. • Evaluate a text and explain how oxymoron has impact on the reader. • Use oxymoron to make writing poetic expressive, creative and concise. These digital task cards would be great on a: • laptop • desktop • Chromebook • tablet • mobile device • Smart Board These cards are aligned to: CCSS – ELA.LITERACY. RL.6-8.4, L.6-8.5, L.9-10.3 More related Boom Cards by the same author: • Rhetorical Comparison Devices: 75 Boom Cards • Rhetorical Sound Devices: 96 Boom Cards • Sensory Imagery – Word Images: 60 Boom Cards • Personification – Figure of Speech: 32 Boom Cards • Irony Types – Verbal, Situational, Dramatic: 38 Boom Cards • Synecdoche vs Metonymy: 68 Boom Cards • Metaphor: 71 Boom Cards • Idioms: 66 Boom Cards