Wonderscape
Personification: Bringing Life to the Inanimate in Literature
This video delves into the concept of personification, where non-human entities, like animals and objects, are endowed with human qualities. It discusses examples to illustrate how personification adds depth and relatability to...
Wonderscape
Allusion in Literature: Conveying Meaning with Brevity
This video explores allusion, a literary technique that briefly mentions well-known references to convey deeper meanings. It emphasizes the importance of audience knowledge for effective allusions, using examples from Charles Dickens,...
Wonderscape
Navigating Literary Elements and Techniques
This video provides an in-depth exploration of literary elements and techniques used by writers to craft engaging stories. It covers themes, atmosphere, foreshadowing, diction, and anaphora, offering insights into how these tools shape...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Objectifying the Text: Conversations in Literature
See how effective readers utilize literary elements and allusions to critically analyze a text in this one-hour video Objectifying the Text. A group of nine experienced educators examine the process of envisionment building as they...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Euphony
Notes introducing and providing examples of euphony. Examples are provided from "The Duchess and the Jeweler" by Virginia Woolf and "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Notes can be both read and listened to.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Metonymy
This lesson focuses on the literary device metonymy; it defines it, compares it to a metaphor, and provides everyday examples such as "man of the cloth" for priest, and literary examples such as "lend me your ears."
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Understand How Repetition, Rhyme, and Alliteration Can Impact Poem
In this video, you will learn how poets use sound to influence emotion by finding repetition, rhyme, and alliteration and examining the feelings created. [6:03]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify and Describe How an Author Foreshadows Certain Events
In this lesson, you will learn how to look for clues about what will happen in the story by rereading and asking, "What words are clue words that foreshadow something in the story?" [6:19]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Sound of Language: Alliteration, Assonance, and Onomatopoeia
This video explains what alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia are, and how they are used in literary text. [6:20]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Is a Literary Element?: Walt Whitman
What is a literary element? Find the answer in this video segment that highlights the personal and artistic life of Walt Whitman.
Elizabeth Foye
Vimeo: Alliteration
A video [2:01] by Elizabeth Foye defining and giving examples of alliteration.