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A Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1.92 Animated Note: Proud River
In A Midsumer Night's Dream, Titania describes her quarrel with Oberon as disrupting the natural world, causing mists to pull water from the sea and flood rivers, which she personifies as becoming "proud and arrogant." This video...
Wonderscape
Understanding Diction: Character Voices in Literature
This video examines the literary device of diction, highlighting how the choice of words and speech style of characters in a story can reveal their personalities and backgrounds. It uses examples from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by...
The Learning Depot
How Authors Describe Characters: Direct vs Indirect Characterization
When taking a reading comprehension test, have you ever been stumped by a question asking about how the author or another character feels about a specific character? Or perhaps when reading a novel or story, you’re somewhat confused...
Amor Sciendi
Musée des Beaux Arts and Auden's View of Suffering
A close reading of WH Auden's peom Musée des Beaux Arts
Englishing
ESL - Literary Devices (Tone, Allusion, Analogy and Juxtaposition)
Literary devices are divided by literary elements and literary techniques. In this lesson, Mr. P. will focus on the literary devices of tone, allusion, analogy and juxtaposition. He will make reference to Shakespeare's classics Romeo and...
Englishing
ESL - Literary Devices (Onomatopoeia, Personification, Simile, and Metaphor)
What are literary devices? In this video lesson, Mr. P. will answer that question, and will focus on examples of onomatopoeia, personification, simile and metaphor. At the end of the lesson, there is an exercise with key for students to...
Wonderscape
Great Authors: E.B. White
This video is a lesson about the life and works of EB White, a renowned children's book author. The teacher discusses White's background, his major children's books (Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan), and the...
Wonderscape
Literature Kids: Theme, Atmosphere, Diction, and Anaphora
In this video, the teacher explains the concepts of literary elements and literary techniques. They discuss the literary elements of theme and atmosphere, and the literary techniques of foreshadowing, diction, and anaphora. Through...
Wonderscape
Literature Kids: Exploring Poetic Devices
In this video, the teacher discusses the fundamental poetic devices of alliteration, assonance, and consonance. They explain how these devices create rhythm and rhyme in poetry and provide examples from famous poets such as Walt Whitman...
Wonderscape
Great Authors: Dr. Seuss
In this video, the teacher discusses the life and legacy of Dr. Seuss. She highlights some of Dr. Seuss's most popular books and their impact on children's literature. The video also explores the text features and literary devices used...
Other
The School of Life: What Is the Stream of Consciousness?
This video describes what we mean by 'stream of consciousness' and how writers such as Anthony Trollope and James Joyce have tried to convey it in their works. It then discusses possible strategies for tapping into our inner thought...
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Decoding Metaphors and Similes
A video [1:15] explaining and giving examples of how to decode similes and metaphors.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Metaphor for Kids
An educational video [1:55] that defines and gives examples of metaphors.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: What Is a Simile
An educational video [1:04] that defines and gives examples of similes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Hyperbaton
The lesson introduces hyperbaton and goes over how hyperbaton is used in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [2:57] with the lesson's content.
Other
Youtube: What Is Personification?
Learn about personification and anthropomorphism through explanations and examples in this video. [1:22]
Other
Youtube: What Is an Idiom?
Watch a video to learn about idioms with a definition and examples. [1:23]