Emotional Metaphors

This worksheet invites students to answer questions like “What is joy?” by creating metaphors and explaining their choices. It encourages them to find a metaphor that captures the essence of each emotion and to explain why their metaphor is appropriate. This exercise helps them delve into the nuances of emotion and consider how language can represent feelings. Through this activity, students explore the power of language in capturing the subtleties of human experience.

This metaphor exercise fosters empathy and emotional depth in students’ thinking and writing. By articulating feelings metaphorically, they gain insight into the complexity of emotions and how they are expressed in language. This enhances their analytical skills, as they must consider why a metaphor works and how it resonates with the concept of the emotion. It also promotes self-reflection as students examine their own interpretations of these emotions.