This unit focues on life and death, text-to-text connections, archetypes, symbols, and allusions, and writing in a non-native language. It features "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and...

In this lesson, students will learn about allusion including what it is, the four types of allusions, and allusions in speeches.

This lesson focuses on Johnathan Edwards and The Great Awakening, a movement to revival the Puritan religion. It features information about the Great Awakening and why in wasn't successful and a link to the sermon "Sinners in the Hands...

This lesson focuses on allusions including the definition, how allusions work, one- and two-word allusions, alluding to another text, and how to identify them.

A learning module that teaches students about allusion as a literary device in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Allusion Defined, Allusion in Speeches, Allusion in Writing, Test Your Understanding.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on allusions to mythological, classical, and traditional texts and understanding what allusion is, its importance and use as a literary device, and how to...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The individual sections of this lesson will focus on understanding what allusion is, its importance and use as a literary device, and how to recognize it in reading. The main...

This unit focuses on allusions and symbols using the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and Dante's Inferno. It provides links to a list of common allusions from the Bible and Greek/Roman mythology, Dictionary of Symbolism, and...

This lesson focuses on Dante's Inferno: Cantos 1-34 from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. It includes links to the Digital Dante website to read the work, handouts, and a discussion rubric.

This is a comprehensive unit on Greek and Roman mythology including essential questions, key terms, background information, reading assignments from both Greek and Roman mythology, influences of them today, assignments such as creating a...

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...

This entry focuses on the commonly confused words allusion, illusion, and delusion including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to a quiz/exercise.

You will be able to identify and understand allusions in myths, the classics, and other traditional texts and their influence on modern literature.

This lesson will help you comprehend the poet's meaning by giving you practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions.

This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz for the commonly confused words Allusion, Illusion, and Delusion.

This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz for the commonly confused words Allusion, Illusion, and Delusion.

The Tandroy live in the far south of Madagascar and speak a Malagasy dialect. Their land is known as "the Androy," literally, "where the roy ( Mimosa delicatula ) is," but more commonly rendered as "land of the thorny bush" or "spiny...

The Lozi consist of a number of interrelated ethnic groups located along the Zambezi River in Barotse Province of western Zambia. The term "Lozi" refers both to the Lozi proper and to those groups that have become subject to and...

Doing the exercises in this lesson will help students comprehend the poet's meaning by giving them practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.

A brief definition of allusion with examples. Differentiates between the term allusion and the term illusion.

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.

Take this quiz to see if you can identify the many ways that allusion is used in our language. W.9-10.9a Analysis

This lesson focuses on Nikki Giovanni and her use of historical and Biblical allusions in her poetry. It includes links to her biography, a video interview with Giovanni, and to her poem "Ego Tripping." Students are to read the poem and...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Through this practice lesson, students will learn how to interpret poetry. They will learn how to spot a metaphor, to identify imagery, and be introduced to the terms...