This lesson focuses on defining the literary terms in American Romanticism. It features a list of terms and an interactive crossword puzzle using them.

This slideshow lesson focuses on antithesis; it defines it and explains its uses: to acknowledge the complexity of the situation, to emphasize contrast, and to create a balance between opposites.

This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.

This is a glossary entry for the term "Puns" including a definition and an extensive list of examples.

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.

In this culminating lesson for a poetry unit, students will create a video podcast that summarizes a specific poem, analyzes the poet's use of literary elements, and infers the meaning of the poem (theme). The podcast must use a talk...

Defines and compares the use of assonance and consonance in poetry, with examples.

Seven slides introducing and providing examples of personification. Slides also explain the purpose and impact of personification within a text, and examples come from "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

This is a glossary entry for the term "Analogy" including the definition, an example, and links to more information.

This is a glossary entry for the term "Syllepsis" including definitions and links to more information and examples.

This lesson focuses on Rhetoric and the literary techniques used in American Revolutionary speeches and writings. Students are asked to determine the rhetorical devices used in quotes from "The Crisis No 1" by Thomas Paine and Patrick...

This lesson introduces onomatopoeia as a figure of speech.

A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning about idioms, adages, and proverbs.

This slideshow lesson introduces idioms.

This instructional activity not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a instructional activity in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the...

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....

This site provides a very detailed definition of the term but does not give any examples. Part of a larger site of literary terms.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will learn that onomatopoeias are words that imitate sounds. Using them can enhance writing and poetry.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of reading that responds to and analyzes the effects of sound, figurative language, and graphics in...

A six-part learning module with links to videos and websites about similes and metaphors.