PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques Collection
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...
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Pain Has an Element of Blank
A poem from Emily Dickinson, "Pain Has an Element of Blank", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Angelo Gladding and can access a printable version of this piece.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Text: Meter and Rhyme
OnTRACK English II Reading, Module 3, Lessons 1-12, and Practice Lessons 1-3. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry, drama, fiction, and literary non-fiction, and provide...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Approaching Poetry
This lesson focuses on the how to approach the analysis of poetry. It provides a series of student activities such as having students read and compare a draft and the final version of William Blake's "Tyger" which is followed by a...
Education.com
Education.com: Rl.4.5 Worksheets: Explain Major Differences Between Poems, Drama
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 8 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard RL.4.5: Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to...
TES Global
Blendspace: Poetry Power
A learning module with fifteen links to a slideshow, videos, texts, and websites on elements of poetry, figurative language, and different types of poetry.
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America Dept. Of State: Outline of American Literature [Pdf]
This online book presents an overview of American literature chronologically. Eras and movements are explained and biographies of significant authors are provided. This is a good way to understand the background and influences of...
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Holt Elements of Literature Sixth Course: Introduction From Beowulf
A background for the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, to the time period in which it was created, and about the concept of the Epic Hero.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]
In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
This site contains biographical content drawn from the American Masters Series DVD entitled The Life And Times of Allen Ginsberg. The person featured,Allen Ginsberg, was one of the first "beat" poets. His counterculture experimentation...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 12: Analyzing Literature
An online model of a twelfth-grade analysis of the poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning. Provides excellent style, structure, and analytical techniques, as well as notations and aids for student support. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions
A series of 24 instructional videos, each about 30 minutes in length, designed to teach literary analysis. Topics include Responding to Literature, The Elements of Short Fiction, Tone and Style in Short fiction, The Elements of Poetry,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding Poetry (English 7 Reading)
You will learn the importance of graphical elements (e.g., capital letters, line length, word position) in the meaning of a poem.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Pizzaz!
Come and check out this incredible resource from the University of Oregon. This site features links to creative-writing for poetry and fiction, as well as other teacher resources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Periodic Table of Poetic Elements
Each student will create a poem about an element on the periodic table. The poems will be placed in the appropriate "square" to create a large periodic table wall hanging. This project will require the collaborative work of several...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Poetry of the West
This entry, from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature, provides a description of the poetry written in the second half of the nineteenth century by poets of the American West, namely Bret Harte. It examines common...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry Cinquains
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flip chart explores the elements of Cinquain poetry. Students analyze the structure and create original Cinquains.
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Official Site of Gary Soto
This site provides a brief biography of author, Gary Soto, and includes links to his current works.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Imagery
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...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Poetry of Maya Angelou
This primary source set includes photographs, illustrations, correspondence, interviews, and a sound recording that provides context for thematic elements in the poetry of Maya Angelou as well as her life.
TES Global
Tes: 'Crabbed Age and Youth'. William Shakespeare's Use of Similes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module contains a PowerPoint game that reviews literary and figurative elements that are present in poetry. Students will also analyze the William Shakespeare's poem, "Crabbed Age of...
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Brock University: Critical Reading: A Guide
In addition to thoroughly exploring the purposes and functions of an analytical essay, this resource provides students with step-by-step instructions for reading and analyzing poetry, prose-fiction, and fiction. The site also offers...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Poetry Introduction
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces several types of poetry, gives the elements and examples of each type. The types of poetry include color poetry, limericks, free verse, and couplets.
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