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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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore the literary technique of imagery to see how sensory language contributes to the meaning and feeling of a poem in this animated video [1:23] from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding...
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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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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.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analyzing Poetry for Imagery "Memory"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on analyzing imagery using the poem "Memory" by Jen Eiserman. [11:17]
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Evaluate the role of imagery, metaphor, and simile in literary nonfiction such as speeches and essays.
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Texas Education Agency

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

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize the literary devices of simile and metaphor and understand their roles in poetry and fiction.
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Imagine Imagery

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders will dive into the word "imagery," learning what it means and using what they learn to describe a color using all 5 senses.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: General Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide includes an extensive list of literary and rhetorical terms. List can be displayed alphabetically.
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Other

Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Analyzing and Evaluating Literary Works

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Lesson plan designed for eleventh graders. Students analyze and evaluate a short story for elements of literary works such as theme, mood, word choice, imagery, tone, and main idea. Includes a student handout and a scoring guide. It...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Literary Elements/humorous Fiction Terms Flashcards

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Literary elements are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: allusion, antagonist, dialogue, flashback, imagery, protagonist, symbol, dialect, hyperbole, idiom, irony, parody, pun, sarcasm,...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Literary Elements/humorous Fiction Terms Test

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Literary terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following words: allusion, antagonist, dialogue, flashback, imagery, protagonist, symbol, dialect, hyperbole, idiom, irony, parody, pun, sarcasm, understatment, and...
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Julius Caesar Analysis: Literary Devices in Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of the literary devices used by Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Each device is linked to additional pages with more detailed information and examples.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Imagery Chart [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short graphic organizer for students in studying the literary element of imagery. Includes a definition and chart with five sections with examples, one for each of the senses.
Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry that defines the term "Imagery."
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
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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.
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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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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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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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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Hamlet Symbolism, Imagery, and Allegory

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how Shakespeare using symbolism, imagery and allegory in his play Hamlet.
Article
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Animal Farm Analysis: Literary Devices in Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a literary analysis of Animal Farm by George Orwell using the literary devices in the novel including symbolism, imagery, allegory, setting, point of view, genre, tone, writing style, plot analysis and more.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Romeo and Juliet Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives an overview of the major literary devices found in Romeo and Juliet.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....

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