National Endowment for the Humanities
Lesson 3: Religion and the Fight for American Independence
Pupils explore the role religion played in the American Revolutionary War. Using primary documents and writing exercises, high schoolers understand how religion was used in support of the war efforts and how specific religious groups...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Lesson 2: The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act
Pupils research and discuss the provisions in the Constitution that supported the arguments for and against the Sedition Act. They articulate objections to and arguments in favor of the Sedition Act.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Online Learning Center: Glossary of Poetic Terms
This is an online glossary of poetry terms including a list of terms, definitions, and examples. It also provides links to other terms that are used in the definition.
Other
Mostly Fiction: Latin American Writers and Magic
The writer of this site tells about her experience with reading literature written in the "magical realism" style. It is a personal response to literature, rather than a scholarly analysis, but it is well-written and knowledgable. Many...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Extended Metaphor
This slideshow focuses on the extended metaphor including defining it, stating its purpose, showing the difference between a metaphor and an extended metaphor, and providing a literary example -- Shakespeare's "As You Like It"-- with...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Grammar Basics: Metaphors
This tutorial focuses on metaphors using a PowerPoint presentation which offers definitions, examples, and various types of metaphors, as well as, similes for comparison. It provides two YouTube videos: the first includes popular songs...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Analogy
This slideshow focuses on analogy including defining it, discussing its purpose, and providing two literary examples. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
Harvard University
Harvard University: Strategies for Essay Writing
This website provides a series of links to detailed information about each segment of how to write an academic essay from how to read the assignment to the final edits. Use the links to the right. W.9-10.1a claims/intro/org, W.9-10.2a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Descriptive Writing: Similes, Metaphors, Cliches, Hyperbole
This lesson focuses on figurative language used in descriptive writing including similes, metaphors, cliches, hyperbole. It offers multiple links to websites pertaining to figurative language in descriptive and creative writing; an...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape
This is an introduction to a unit on the use of rhetoric in speaking or writing to persuade an audience to the desired way of thinking or action. If focuses on rhetorical techniques and the three audience appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Imagery, Metaphor, and Simile (English Ii Reading)
This lesson focuses on understanding imagery, metaphors, and similes.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Importance of Figurative Language: Practice 3 (English I Reading)
This practice activity focuses on identifying figurative language, determining literal from figurative language, and connecting figurative language to settings. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Simile and Metaphor (English Iii Reading)
You will be able to identify the similes and metaphors in a text and evaluate their importance to the meaning of the text. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Rhetorical Devices and Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn about two rhetorical devices that are writing performance enhancers, analogy and antithesis. You will also learn about transitional words and...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip
This lesson is designed to help students review what they have learned in earlier classes and to begin to engage with similes on a deeper and more abstract level. Students will define similes and identify examples; read and analyze the...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Allegory
This is a glossary entry for the term "Allegory" including multiple definitions for the term, links to other figures of speech, links to more information, and examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Analogy
This is a glossary entry for the term "Analogy" including the definition, an example, and links to more information.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Metaphor
This is a glossary entry for the term "Metaphor" including a definition and links to simile, personification, hyperbole, anology, and other figures of speech.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Simile
This is a glossary entry for the term "Simile" including a definition and examples in a cartoon and in literary works. Links are provided to more information and examples.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Understatement
This is an encyclopedia entry for the word "Understatement." It defines the term, provides background information about it, and offers references.
Other
Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Analyzing and Evaluating Literary Works
Lesson plan designed for eleventh graders. Students analyze and evaluate a short story for elements of literary works such as theme, mood, word choice, imagery, tone, and main idea. Includes a student handout and a scoring guide. It...
Other
Spelling police.com: Literary Devices
A simple list of literary terms. Click on each for a definition and examples.
Other
Shoreline Community College: Formal Properties of Literature
As students become more aware of text complexity, an understanding of the formal properties of literature becomes more important. This is an excellent examination of the kinds of choices writers make that change the way readers receive...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Stairway to Heaven Examining Metaphor in Popular Music
Contains plans for two lessons that ask students to make connections between literary texts and popular culture texts like song lyrics. After checking popular culture texts for literary elements, these elements are then examined in...