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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "Top Twenty Figures of Speech" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a two-page PDF of the "Top Twenty Figures of Speech" which provides 20 literary techniques with their definitions from GrammarAbout.com.
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Unit Plan
City University of New York

Brooklyn College: Melani: Emily Dickinson: Death

For Students 9th - 10th
This is Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" followed by an analysis of the poem.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Short Stories: Instruction Page 2: Short Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focues on plot, irony, and suspense as seen in short stories by Richard Connell and Edgar Allan Poe. It defines each term and provides examples.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Short Stories: "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes links to a Discovery Education video about Edgar Allan Poe (Registration Required), a PoeDecoder page for "The Cask of Amontillado," a...
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature: Short Stories: "The Necklace"

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. It defines irony and the types of irony and provides links to a PDF text of "The Necklace" and reading questions.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Transcendentalism: Key Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on key literary terms that fit the writings of the period and an interactive crossword puzzle using the terms and their definitions.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Restoration and Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Swift

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Jonathan Swift and his use of satire and irony. It features links to Swift's biography, "A Voyage to Lilliput" and "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" texts from Gulliver's Travels, and a handout with questions about the...
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Satire

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This video lesson focuses on satire including its definition, its purpose, how it works, media examples, and literary examples. Real Player is required.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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PPT
Other

Seymour Community School District: 10 Rhetorical Devices [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow discussing ten rhetorical devices, with links to examples, in-depth information, and a video. Covers logos, ethos, pathos, analogy, metaphor, irony, personification, rhetorical question, tricolon, and maxims. Presents a...
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Primary
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Rhetoric & the Story of Corax vs. Tisias

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
After reading the arugments of each of two lawyers in court, decide who wins.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Dramatic Irony (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on dramatic irony including what it is, it's purpose, examples in various genre, and a practice exercise. RL.11-12.6 Irony/Satire/etc
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Irony, Sarcasm, and Paradox (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to evaluate the role of irony, paradox, and sarcasm in literary nonfiction such as speeches and essays. It includes the definitions and...
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Unit Plan
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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Irony (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learning to read and appreciate irony is the ultimate test of your skill at reading between the lines and can take considerable practice. This lesson will help you acquire...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students practice reading closely so that you can identify the choices that help create tone, diction, and irony.
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Life and Death

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module with short stories, speeches, and poetry exploring the theme of life and death.
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Wilde's the Importance of Being Earnest: A Close Reading

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students will consider several aspects of Oscar Wilde's most popular of comedies, "The Importance of Being Earnest". The success of this play is in part due to its examination of moral principles - in this case, the...
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Irony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Irony" including the definition, the three types, and visual examples.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Satire

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Satire" including definitions and examples. Also offers links to more information and examples.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Verbal Irony?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In the final of a three part series on irony, Christopher Warner gets into the irony you may use most often and most casually: verbal irony. [3:29]
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: In on a Secret? That's Dramatic Irony

For Students 9th - 10th
Christopher Warner identifies the storytelling device of dramatic irony. [2:50]
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Handout
Other

Spelling police.com: Irony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Informational site that provides the definition for and examples of irony.
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Handout
Other

Spelling police.com: Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A simple list of literary terms. Click on each for a definition and examples.