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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.
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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts: Literary Terms: A Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a guide to poetic literary terms such as meter and an explanation of several types of meter, types of stanzas, types of rhyme, etc.
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Lesson Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Literary Terms to Know in Seventh Grade

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This site lists and briefly defines the literary terms 7th graders should know including types of writing, literary devices, sound devices, figurative language, and parts of a story,
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Thinking Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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....
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Other

University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is provided for by the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Over forty literary terms defined by college students, each with thorough examples.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an extensive glossary of literary terms.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quiz: Literature Meets Art

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Test your knowledge of terms and materials in the 'Literature meets art' tutorial. Match the term to its correct definition below. If you need a hint, look back at Terms and materials: Literature
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms a E

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, A - E, covers forty-four terms from "Allegory" to "Exposition."
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms F R

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The second of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, F - R, covers forty-seven terms from "Fable," to "Romance."
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Anagram

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Anagram" including a definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Anastrophe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Anastrophe" including the definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Foil

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Foil" including definition and examples.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Hyperbaton

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the figure of speech "Hyperbaton" including definitions from two sources.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Juxtaposition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Juxtaposition" including multiple definitions.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Malapropism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Malapropism" including definitions from two separate sources.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Euphony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Euphony" including a definition and an example.
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Other

Basic Literary Terms: The Novel and Short Story

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has definitions of many parts of short stores including crisis, novel, short story, plot, exposition, theme, etc.
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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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Interactive
New York Times

New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive and printable crossword puzzle developed by the New York Times Learning Network. The theme of this puzzle is Literary Terms. Other links are included.
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Other

The Poetry Archive: Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
A glossary of literary terms listed by alphabetical order. Many terms contain links to additional information.
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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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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Literary Elements

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to be actively engaged in identifying and describing story elements. It uses the Learning Focus lesson plan format, such as an activator, graphic organizers, modeling,...