Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Allusions to Mythological, Classical, and Traditional Texts
[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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Allusion (English Iii Reading)
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Allusion (English Ii Reading)
In this lesson, students will learn about allusion including what it is, the four types of allusions, and allusions in speeches.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Text: Allusion
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Allusions to Mythological, Classical, and Traditional Texts
[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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Allusion and Symbols
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...
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Commonly Confused Words: Allusion / Illusion / Delusion
This entry focuses on the commonly confused words allusion, illusion, and delusion including providing an explanation, examples, and a link to a quiz/exercise.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Allusions to Mythological, Classical, and Traditional Texts
You will be able to identify and understand allusions in myths, the classics, and other traditional texts and their influence on modern literature.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Allusion (English Ii Reading)
You will be able to analyze the function of allusion in literary texts.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Allusion/ Illusion/ Delusion Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz for the commonly confused words Allusion, Illusion, and Delusion.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Allusion/ Illusion/ Delusion Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz for the commonly confused words Allusion, Illusion, and Delusion.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Allusion/illusion
A brief definition of allusion with examples. Differentiates between the term allusion and the term illusion.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature: Allusion and Symbols: Dante's Inferno
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.
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Knowledge Master Weekly Quiz: Allusions
Take this quiz to see if you can identify the many ways that allusion is used in our language. W.9-10.9a Analysis
Quizlet
Quizlet: Allusions Quiz
This interactive assessment features 11 multiple choice questions over the vocabulary words related to mythological allusions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Allusions Matching
Play a matching game to join each mythological allusion with its meaning as you race against the clock.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Allusions: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 11 vocabulary words related to mythological allusions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit: Postmodernism: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Colonial Literature: The Great Awakening
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:ap Literature & Composition: Life, Death, and in Between
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet: Lucille Clifton
This lesson focuses on Lucille Clifton, her poetry, and her use of Biblical allusions. It features links to her biography, a Wikipedia article about Absalom, three of her poems: "adam thinking," "eve thinking," and "oh absalom my son my...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
[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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3 (English Ii Reading)
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism and to evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.