Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Literary Terms Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan for teaching the seven literary terms used in poetry: simile, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Literary Terms to Know in Seventh Grade
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,
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Thinking Skills
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....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Hyperbole and Understatement (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to recognize hyperbole and understatement in nonfiction. Good examples also appear in other forms of writing such as fiction and poetry, but we...
Other
University of North Carolina: Glossary of Literary Terms
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.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms
This is an extensive glossary of literary terms.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Quiz: Literature Meets Art
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
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Terms and Materials: Literature
You may have come across some terms in the previous films that were new to you, or that need some further explanation. Take a look through the glossary below for a few terms in more detail:
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms S Z
The third of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, S - Z, covers twenty-two terms from "Saga," to "Understatement."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Pathetic Fallacy
This is a glossary entry for the term "Pathetic Fallacy" including a definition and literary examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Periphrasis
This is a glossary entry for the term "Periphrasis" including a definition and an example.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Periodic Structure
This is a glossary entry for the term "Periodic Structure" including the definition and an example.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Polysyndeton
This is a glossary entry for the term "Polysyndeton" including a definition and literary examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Portmanteau
This is a glossary entry for the term "Portmanteau" meaning to put two or more words together to form new words like fog and smoke make smog.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Synesthesia
This is a glossary entry for the term "Synesthesia" including a definition and links to more information and examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Verisimilitude
This is a glossary entry for the term "Verisimilitude" including the definition and examples.
Other
Basic Literary Terms: The Novel and Short Story
This site has definitions of many parts of short stores including crisis, novel, short story, plot, exposition, theme, etc.
Quia
Quia: List of Literary Terms
A list of 28 literary terms with brief, clear definitions. "Nonfiction," is the last term in the list.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Literary Terms
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.
Other
The Poetry Archive: Glossary
A glossary of literary terms listed by alphabetical order. Many terms contain links to additional information.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Assessment Terms
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Literary Elements
[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,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Literary Terms
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is set up in a game format for students to review Vocabulary-Literary Terms. The questions are in multiple choice formats with the magnifier revealing if the answer is correct.
Vancouver Island University
Vancouver Island University: Literary Terms
Site contains a list of literary terms, including the word "characterization." Basic but accurate definitions are easy to understand.