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Curated OER

Reading Comprehension 4: Level 8

For Students 8th - 10th
Need a quick but comprehensive reading strategies exercise? Even your most reluctant readers will be engaged by the story of a nuclear reactor explosion at a top-secret Idaho base. After reading the short passage, learners answer nine...
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PPT
Curated OER

Literary Techniques

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Need to review literary terms/techniques with your class? The slides in this presentation define and give examples of 22 common literary terms. The PowerPoint could be used for AP test prep.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

English Test

For Students 5th - 6th
In this literary techniques instructional activity, students complete a 12 question multiple choice question test. Included are questions about poetry conventions such as repetition, similes, rhyming patterns, alliteration and metaphors.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Text Elements—Vampires

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the tone and style of passages from horror genre literature. In this literary elements lesson, students read The Vampire by John Stagg and the War of the World script by H.G. Wells, Students write about the way the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gandhi's Autobiography and the Study of Memoir

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the life of Gandhi using his autobiography and memoir. In this Gandhi exploration lesson, 7th graders analyze Gandhi's literary voice by reading his autobiography. Students identify literary techniques in Gandhi's...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson Refresh: Plan with the END in Mind

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify literary techniques by participating in a class discussion. In this organization instructional activity, 4th graders practice public speaking while presenting ideas for a story to their classmates as well as...
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Handout
McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Online Learning Center: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an online glossary of poetry terms including a list of terms, definitions, and examples. It also provides links to other terms that are used in the definition.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "Top Twenty Figures of Speech" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a two-page PDF of the "Top Twenty Figures of Speech" which provides 20 literary techniques with their definitions from GrammarAbout.com.
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Handout
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Literary Terms #2: Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a three-page PDF of an alphabetic list of literary terms focusing on nonfiction.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Realism:"an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Ambrose Bierce

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. It discusses the use of literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, forshadowing, flashback and flash-forward, and offers a PDF of...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Satire and Humor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit focuses on satire and humor; it defines satire as a literary device used to expose follies, vices, and hypocrites to bring about change. It includes links to Gullivers Travels and Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, "The Rape of...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Dystopia

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow focuses on the use of dystopia, dysfunctional societies, in literature. It defines dystopia, explains common characteristics, tells how and why dystopia is created it literature, and provides examples in novels and in movies.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Mark examples of figurative language and the diction that indicate tone.
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Other

Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1: Dramatic Justice [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson unit, students investigate how justice is perceived and addressed in different cultures and times by examining literature from around the world. Texts examined include: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, A Sport of Nature...
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PPT
Other

Seymour Community School District: 10 Rhetorical Devices [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze the Central Characters in Literary Text/fiction

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, students will learn some ways that writers reveal the complexity of their characters. By closely analyzing one author's characters, they will come to see how their words, actions, and interactions with one another can...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: The Universal Flow of Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Although each piece of literature is unique, there are universal ideas that each story, myth, or poem share in common. Examine the universal ideas of theme, symbolism, and archetypes in this self-guided unit. Also, acquaint yourself with...
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Time

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided unit, you will be working with literature which is centered on the themes of past, present and future. You will experience several different literary perceptions of the past and the future by reading ancient...
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Website
Other

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques Collection

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
These animated shorts introduce or review literary elements and techniques like theme, setting, figurative language, characterization, and conflict. They can be used when students are just learning how to identify the most commonly used...
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Asyndeton

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Asyndeton" including definitions, an example, and links to more information.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Cacophony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Cacophony" meaning harsh, discordant sounds. It includes a poem entitled "Player Piano" as an example.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Chiasmus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Chiasmus" including a definition and examples.
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Handout
Other

Goucher College: A Glossary of Terms Essential to Describing Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An exhaustive list of literary terms and techniques with explanations that often include examples, prepared for a college-level survey course in English literature.