This lesson plan serves as an introduction to American literary non-fiction writing and focuses primarily on teaching some basic approaches to recognizing rhetorical strategies adopted for persuasive effect in essays and non-fiction. The...

This lesson not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary devices:...

A seven-slide presentation introducing flashback and describing how to find it in a literary text. Examples are provided.

Seven slides introducing and providing examples of personification. Slides also explain the purpose and impact of personification within a text, and examples come from "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Notes introducing and providing examples of alliteration and the two types of alliteration, consonance and assonance. Notes can be both read and listened to.

This lesson introduces consonance.

This lesson introduces onomatopoeia as a figure of speech.

This lesson introduces alliteration.

This lesson introduces symbols in fiction writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

This slideshow lesson introduces idioms.

This lesson introduces puns in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.

This lesson introduces analogy.

This is a glossary entry for the term Deus ex Machina which literally means "god out of a machine." It is a negative reference to an author who uses a supernatural being like an angel to resolve a plot.