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Handout
Quia

Quia: List of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A list of 28 literary terms with brief, clear definitions. "Nonfiction," is the last term in the list.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Interpreting Literature Terms

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module on literary terms including links to text, videos, word lists and images on literary terms such as plot, setting, character, point of view, style, theme, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: La Figurative Language: Alliteration

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with images, charts, and videos filled with explanations and examples of alliteration.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Assessment Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes ten links to videos, websites, and assessments that review literary terms such as poetic devices, figurative language, literary elements, literary terms, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Poetry

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to texts and videos on figurative language in poetry.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Gallagher Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module with thirty-one links to images, texts, websites, and videos to on figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, alliteration, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, texts, and websites to use while learning about figurative language including simile, metaphor, idioms, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A thirteen-part learning module with links to websites, images, videos, and texts to use while learning about figurative language.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A ten-part learning module with links to videos, websites, texts, and a quiz on figurative language simile, metaphor, idiom, cliche, symbolism, and more.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language 6th Grade

For Students 6th Standards
A seven-part learning module with links to websites, videos, and a chart about figurative language including simile, metaphor, alliteration, hyperbole, anthropomorphism, and idiom.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Figurative Language

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to images and a video about figurative language including simile, onomatopoeia, and metaphor.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Learning Figurative Language Rap

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A learning module with twenty-four links to websites, images, texts, and videos to use while learning about figurative language.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Tone, Diction, and Analysis of Word Choice

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Slideshow explores the connection between word choice and the author's tone.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Proverbs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[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...
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Website
Vocabulary Spelling City

Spelling City: Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website focuses on figurative language: hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, and idioms. It provides lists of examples for each based on three educational levels: elementary, middle school, and high school.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource explores figurative language including similes, metaphors, and personification. There are many activities used to support the exploration of each type of figurative language.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language and Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews figurative language and persuasive writing. It also includes an Activote session.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Figurative Language and Sound Devices

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is intended for students in grades 4 and 5 who have been introduced to the terms simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. The activities in the flipchart give...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Idioms

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is an introduction to idioms. It is intended to meet Nevada 8th grade standards in relation to figurative language and idioms.
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Website
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: English Worksheets and Tests

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Downloadable worksheets and tests focusing on reading, figurative language, genre, language arts, point of view, and text structure for middle grades.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Metaphors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on the literary device metaphor. It defines the term, explains its purpose, and provides examples. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Denotation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Brief definition of the term denotation provided. Several examples given and a link to the term connotation provided.
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Activity
Other

Common Core Standards Bellringers: Grade 8: English Language Arts [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th Standards
See pages 15, 31, and 47 of this 227-page document for activities where students must order sets of words from most negative to most positive connotation.
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Handout
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: The Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Glossary of Literary Terms provided by the University of Cambridge Faculty of English. Seventy terms are included, and they are given between one sentence and a paragraph of explanation each.