University of Michigan
University of Michigan: Online Symbolism Dictionary
Great website where you can look up literary symbols in a searchable index. For each symbol there is a brief explanation of its significance and links to other related symbols.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Surrealism
This Artlex website gives a detailed definition of Surrealism including its founder, influences, examples of this type of art, and its relationship to dadaism.
Other
Site Officiel De Guillaume Apollinaire
Official web site of Guillaume Apollinaire. It features everything you need to know about the poet and playwright.
Other
Sukkot
Discusses the sukkah and its symbolism. Also describes the purpose of the lulav and etrog. Links at bottom of page to the blessings.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature; American Romanticism: Vocabulary
This lesson focuses on defining the literary terms in American Romanticism. It features a list of terms and an interactive crossword puzzle using them.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Chapters 6 10
In this lesson students read chapters 6-10 of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It discusses symbolism in the novel including its three major symbols: the pear tree, the lamp, and the mule. It provides a study guide, a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Allusion and Symbols
This unit focuses on allusions and symbols using the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell and Dante's Inferno. It provides links to a list of common allusions from the Bible and Greek/Roman mythology, Dictionary of Symbolism, and...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Self Selected Drama
This unit focuses on the students selecting a play to read and study from an extensive list provided. A link to key drama terms is provided. Student read and respond to their selected text, learn the vocabulary, and take a quiz.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet: Poetry Terms
This is a poetry terms presentation which defines poetry terms.
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...
Read Works
Read Works: A Wrinkle in Time 6th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks Unit engages students in a deep study of Madeleine L'Engle's science fiction work, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will investigate the following topics: the book's theme, the science fiction...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Symbols
This slideshow focuses on common symbols including definition and background information, identification, and lists of common symbols and their meanings by category: colors, flowers, animals, seasons, elements, religious, weather,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Symbolism and Allegory (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a text.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Symbolism/allegory (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a text.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Comp: Animal Farm by George Orwell
This is an introduction to a unit on the political allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell, in which he uses animals to symbolize political leaders in the Russian Revolution.
Other
Lit Charts: Julius Caesar [Pdf]
This is a comprehensive 11-page chart on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. It provides background information on the play, a plot summary, character descriptions, themes, symbol tags, quotes, and a summary and analysis of each scene in the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Through this practice lesson, students will learn how to interpret poetry. They will learn how to spot a metaphor, to identify imagery, and be introduced to the terms...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3 (English Ii Reading)
Doing the exercises in this lesson will help students comprehend the poet's meaning by giving them practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: English 4; Loyalty and Betrayal
A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Symbols in a Story: What's What?
Interact with a work of art to discover how symbolism is portrayed with different characters and elements.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Elements of Poetry
Discover how literary techniques like figurative language, imagery, and symbolism contribute to the overall meaning of a poem. Explore how a poet establishes and builds on a theme and the difference between tone and mood. Through a close...
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...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding and Analysis of Literary Text: Symbolism & Allegory
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about symbolism and allegory in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Recognizing Universal and Contextual Symbols in Literary Texts,...