Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th
This lesson, focuses on three ways to use figurative language: to create imagery, to appeal to the senses (using sensory detail), and to suggest mood.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (Grade 8)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students learn how to make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, you will learn how to make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery and Figurative Language (Grade 8)

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars explore how patterns and contrasts in language (diction, imagery, figurative language) reveal central ideas in texts and develop various motifs (light vs. dark, dreams vs. reality, high vs. low, etc.) in Romeo and Juliet....
Lesson Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Imagery in Hamlet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan takes students through an exploration of the figurative language in "Hamlet."
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Writers use sensory imagery ("smelled the salty air"), similes ("like a strong man playing tug-of-war"), and metaphors ("the waves roaring in my ears") to capture the reader's imagination. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Appearance vs. Reality

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to the literary theme of appearance vs. reality using Hamlet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It features a list of key terms including literary devices and dramatic terms; essential questions including how the...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a modern poetry unit; it features links to poetry and technology standards and a list of key terms. The essential questions for the unit focuses on the characteristics of contemporary poetry, how poets use...
Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover how literary techniques like figurative language, imagery, and symbolism contribute to the overall meaning of a poem. Explore how a poet establishes and builds on a theme and the difference between tone and mood. Through a close...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Music From the Ashes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a self-guided learning unit on the topic of poetry. Included are lessons, self-assessments, background information, learning activities, and related literature. Learn how to analyze poetry, appreciate figurative language, and...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will help you comprehend the poet's meaning by giving you practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions.
Article
Other

Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...
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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...
Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from The UVic Writer's Guide provides a brief description of the literary term "imagery."
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: 3rd Grade Poetry Investigation

For Students 3rd Standards
A learning module with thirty-one links to texts, videos, images, websites, and slides on different types and forms of poetry as well as poetic imagery, rhyme, figurative language use, and more.
PPT
TES Global

Tes: The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point presentation provides a detailed poetic analysis of Thomas Hardy's poem titled 'The Ruined Maid.' Close analysis of the poem's language and imagery are featured.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature; American Romanticism: Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on defining the literary terms in American Romanticism. It features a list of terms and an interactive crossword puzzle using them.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet: Poetry Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a poetry terms presentation which defines poetry terms.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Texts With Similar/different Purposes

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Make complex inferences and use textual evidence such as imagery and figurative language to support understanding.
Handout
Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
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.