Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Flashback
This is a glossary entry defining the term "Flashback."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Mood
This is a glossary entry for the term "Mood" including a definition and a discussion of mood from "Talkie List Dec 06."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Puns
This is a glossary entry for the term "Puns" including a definition and an extensive list of examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Tragedy
This is a glossary entry for the term "Tragedy" including Aristotelian definition of tragedy and the definition of a tragic hero.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Doppelganger
This is a glossary entry for the term "Doppelganger" which literally means "double-goer." It includes defintions and examples.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understatement/overstatement (English I Reading)
A learning module that teaches students to recognize hyperbole and understatement as literary devices in five modules: Introduction, Recognizing Hyperbole and Understanding Its Purpose, Identifying Hyperbole in Poetry, Recognizing...
Quia
Quia: Matching: Literary Devices
This matching game has students match examples of literary devices (yellow boxes) with the terms (blue boxes). There are multiples of each, but each set is matched to a specific box. Java is required.
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Other
Travis Unified School District: Figurative Language Terms in Julius Caesar [Pdf]
A one-page chart listing figurative language terms used in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, along with definitions and examples.
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...
Virtual Salt
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices: Analogy
Defines analogy. Also explains the reasoning behind the multiple levels of comparisons within an analogy. Includes examples and quotes from famous authors.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Anastrophe
This is a glossary entry for the term "Anastrophe" including the definition and an example.
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): Polysyndeton
This is a glossary entry for the term "Polysyndeton" including a definition and literary examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Anagram
This is a glossary entry for the term "Anagram" including a definition and an example.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Circumlocution
This is a glossary entry for the term Circumlocution meaning "a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking."
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Foil
This is a glossary entry for the term "Foil" including definition and examples.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Juxtaposition
This is a glossary entry for the term "Juxtaposition" including multiple definitions.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Malapropism
This is a glossary entry for the term "Malapropism" including definitions from two separate sources.
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): 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.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Euphony
This is a glossary entry for the term "Euphony" including a definition and an example.