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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 7: Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Jimi Hendrix's 'The Wind Cries Mary' is an ideal song, not just to illustrate personification, but also to demonstrate how poetic devices enhance the meaning of the poem. As soon as the students recognize that the speaker is mourning the...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Refrain

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Wikipedia article about the poetic device and musical term called refrain. It mentions a number of forms that use refrain as well as giving some examples from poems and songs.
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Other

Mostly Fiction: Latin American Writers and Magic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The writer of this site tells about her experience with reading literature written in the "magical realism" style. It is a personal response to literature, rather than a scholarly analysis, but it is well-written and knowledgable. Many...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sound Devices

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A seven-part learning module with links to videos and a website to use while learning about literary devices relying on sound including alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, repetition, and poetic meter and rhythm.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Representative Poetry Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A glossary of literary terms, primarily dealing with poetry, with definitions.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A learning module with twenty-one links to videos, images, and websites on poetry including information on poetry, figurative language, poetic devices, famous poems and poets, and more.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Analyzing Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use poetic devices to analyze a poem of their choice from the Library of Congress.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:how to Read and Analyze a Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this learning module, the user will learn to read and analyze a short story using knowledge of literary and poetic devices.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Irony, Sarcasm, Paradox (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn to identify and explain the purposes of irony and paradox in poetry. Both of these poetic devices are ways of saying one thing and meaning...
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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.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Assessment Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes ten links to videos, websites, and assessments that review literary terms such as poetic devices, figurative language, literary elements, literary terms, and more.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Personification Form [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Form reinforces the concept of personification with examples and room for students to create their own.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sor Juana, La Poetisa: Los Sonetos

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will analyze two sonnets of Sor Juana Ines de la...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will consider Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. In this lesson students will analyze two of Sor Juana's sonnets: "A su retrato"...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Irony, Sarcasm, Paradox (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to identify and explain the purposes of irony and paradox in poetry. Both of these poetic devices are ways of saying one thing and meaning...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphasis: Repetition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to add emphasis through repetition. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Victorian Literature: Poetry: a.e. Housman, 1859 1936

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page of a unit on Victorican Literature focuses on the poetry of A.E. Housman, whose goal of poetry was to "transfuse emotion" to "pack a punch" for the reader. It includes links to three of his poems and a worksheet handout for the...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Poetry Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses various forms of poetry and gives examples of each. Figurative language is explored as a way of determining the meaning of a piece of literature.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Units: 6th Grade Poetry Unit: Identity

For Teachers 6th Standards
Complete teaching unit for 6th Grade Poetry Unit: "Identity." Students will read 6 poems that speak to the theme of creating an identity. They will revisit the essential question: "How do we forge an identity?", read thematically-paired...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Units: 5th Grade Author Study: Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th
Complete teaching unit for 5th Grade Author Study: Shel Silverstein. Students will read 6 poems by Shel Silverstein that speak to the theme of how we should live our lives. Students will revisit the essential question "According to Shel...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Onomatopoeia Form

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Printable form to reinforce student's understanding of onomatopoeia.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Assonance: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the topic of assonance.

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