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Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
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David G. Simpson: The Use of Kennings in Anglo Saxon Literature [Pdf]
This is an eleven-page PDF research paper on the use of kennings in Anglo Saxon literature. It includes a definition of kennings (a type of metaphor), an outline, the paper, an appendix of kennings and literal translations, and resources.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Identifying Figures of Speech [Pdf]
A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the text.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Allegory
This is a glossary entry for the term "Allegory" including multiple definitions for the term, links to other figures of speech, links to more information, and examples.
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Spelling police.com: Literary Devices
A simple list of literary terms. Click on each for a definition and examples.
Able Media
Figures of Speech: Rhetoric Exercises
This site is a great exercise that helps students practice identifying and translating rhetorical devices in Latin poetry. Uses examples from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Figurative Language Activities
Numerous activities, games, quizzes, lessons, and PowerPoint presentations are provided for the topic of "figurative language" in writing. Students will have numerous exposures to examples. Students will also be able to practice...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Narratives
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, two videos, a song, an exercise, and a game help students to understand how to write a narrative. Elements of a narrative as well as the use of figurative language and sensory images are introduced and...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Thinking Skills
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
Quia
Quia: Concentration: Literary Devices
This game asks students to match literary devices (similes, metaphors, personification, slang/dialect and allusions) with their examples while remembering where they are located behind covered squares. Java is required.
Other
Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
Other
Hoocher: Figures of Speech
A list of figures of speech and their definitions with examples from literature.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms: Synecdoche
Brief definition with links to information on related literary terms and examples.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, especially speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text. The...
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Have You Got a Brook in Your Litte Heart?
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Have You Got a Brook in Your Litte Heart?", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Bobby Allen and can access a printable version of this piece.
Vocabulary Spelling City
Spelling City: Figurative Language
This website focuses on figurative language: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and idioms. It provides lists of examples for each based on three educational levels: elementary, middle school, and high school.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: How to Change a Frog Into a Prince
In this poem, the author uses the "Frog and Prince" allusion to send a message about raising boys to turn into wonderful men.