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Free Winter Figurative Language

Created by Gay Miller

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Instructions:

o Print the snowman on the next page. o Students will select idioms which contains

winter related words such as ice, cold, or snow. o On the middle snowball, students write their

selected idioms. Under the idioms, students write the meanings of the idioms.

o On the bottom snowball, students will draw literal pictures of the idioms. These are meant

to be funny.

break into a cold sweat to suddenly become very scared about something to be snowed in trapped somewhere because of too much snow

white as the driven snow [of someone] extremely pale, as if frightened

snow bunny someone learning to ski snow job a deceptive story that tries to hide the truth

snowed under overworked; exceptionally busy break into a cold sweat to suddenly become very scared about something

give someone the cold shoulder to behave in an unfriendly way to someone to get cold feet to suddenly become too scared to do something

on thin ice at risk of annoying someone in the cold light of day to think about something clearly and often feel shame

afterwards

put something on ice to delay something

to pour cold water on something to try and stop an idea to break the ice to make people feel less nervous in a social situation

make your blood run cold to make you very scared about something to go cold turkey to stop a habit all in at once, not slowly bit-by-bit

pure as the driven snow to be completely innocent leave someone out in the cold to not involve someone in something, like a group

to run hot and cold to be unable to make up one’ s mind the snowball effect when something small keeps growing in importance

out cold unconscious or sound asleep

stop cold to halt someone immediately break into a cold sweat to suddenly become very scared about something

to be snowed in trapped somewhere because of too much snow white as the driven snow [of someone] extremely pale, as if frightened

snow job a deceptive story that tries to hide the truth snowed under overworked; exceptionally busy

Activity 1 ~ Winter Idiom Illustration

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Jack Frost by Helen Leah Reed

Oh! it is little Margery who has a garden-bed, Wherein grow purple pansies and geraniums white and red, With feverfew and dahlias, and delicate pink phlox, And grandmother's fair favorites, old-fashioned hollyhocks. One night we feared Jack Frost might come to blight the tender flowers - We almost felt his cruel breath in the early evening hours; So Margery took coverings and spread them, thick and warm, To shield the flowers, as blankets wrap a sleeping baby's form. Then in the morning, when we looked across the dewy grass, And saw the traces Jack Frost leaves where he is wont to pass - For each spreading tree and slender bush had felt his chill caress, And some had drooped, and some had blushed in crimson loveliness - We hastened to the garden-bed, and there, in bright array, The little flowers looked blithely up to greet the smiling day. Safe hid from Jack Frost's piercing breath, he never saw them there,

And the flowers still bloom for Margery, to thank her for her care.

Activity 2 ~ Jack Frost

1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. _________________2. Highlight alliterations in yellow. 3. Highlight similes in green.4. Highlight personifications in blue.

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Jack Frost by Helen Leah Reed

Oh! it is little Margery who has a garden-bed, Wherein grow purple pansies and geraniums white and red, With feverfew and dahlias, and delicate pink phlox, And grandmother's fair favorites, old-fashioned hollyhocks. One night we feared Jack Frost might come to blight the tender flowers - We almost felt his cruel breath in the early evening hours; So Margery took coverings and spread them, thick and warm, To shield the flowers, as blankets wrap a sleeping baby's form. Then in the morning, when we looked across the dewy grass, And saw the traces Jack Frost leaves where he is wont to pass - For each spreading tree and slender bush had felt his chill caress, And some had drooped, and some had blushed in crimson loveliness - We hastened to the garden-bed, and there, in bright array, The little flowers looked blithely up to greet the smiling day. Safe hid from Jack Frost's piercing breath, he never saw them there,

And the flowers still bloom for Margery, to thank her for her care.

Activity 2 ~ Jack Frost - Answer Key

1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. ____AABB_____2. Highlight alliterations in yellow. 3. Highlight similes in green.4. Highlight personifications in blue.

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Activity 3 ~ Jack Frost

1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. _________________2. Use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two Jack Frost poems.

Jack Frost by Helen Bayley Davis Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night — Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with its golden beams, They vanished one by one!

Jack Frost by

Helen Leah Reed

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Jack Frost by

Helen Bayley Davis

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Both

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Activity 3 ~ Jack Frost - Answer Key

1. Write the rhyming pattern for the poem. _A B C B_________2. Use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two Jack Frost poems.

Jack Frost by Helen Bayley Davis Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night — Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with its golden beams, They vanished one by one!

Jack Frost by

Helen Leah Reed

Jack Frost is portrayed

as someone bad, the

villain, who will cause

harm. Some examples

include cruel breath

and chill caress.

• _________________

Jack Frost by

Helen Bayley Davis

Jack Frost is playful

and leaves behind

beautiful artwork on

the window. Some

examples of this

include trailing boughs,

crystal butterflies, and

frosty flowers.

Both

Jack Frost is

personified as a person.

Jack Frost leaves

traces behind.

The sun comes out and

Jack Frost goes away.

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Activity 4 ~ North Wind Rhyme

Create a second verse for the North Wind rhyme by filling in the blanks.

The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow,

And what will __________ ____________ do then, poor thing?

He'll ___________________ and _________________________

and ________________________________________, poor thing.

Now write your poem on the next page along with an illustration.

The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow, And what will poor robin do then, poor thing? He'll sit in a barn and keep himself warm and hide his head under his wing, poor thing.

adjective animal

What will this animal do to keep warm? Where will this animal go to keep warm?

What will this animal do all winter long?

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North Wind ________________________________________________________________________________

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