Literary Terms
Poetry Lesson Carla Beard: Who knows why we call it figurative language?
Student: Because you have to figure out what it means!Peggy Smith: Cut out newspaper headlines and titles of articles- especially from the sports section. Paste them on a posterboard and number them. Have students identify the figure of speech by number and explain in concrete terms what the line is saying. Some examples from today's Plain Dealer: "Buckeyes clip ice-cold Gophers", "New Crop of Garden Catalogs", "The Heat is Back on Steel Makers". These are pretty lame, but usually there are some good pickings in the daily newspaper.
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Other Sources
BedfordStMartins The Forest of Rhetoric Literary Terms. Literary and Rhetorical Terms The Department of English, University of Victoria More Lit Terms from Joel Sommer Littauer Rhetorical Figures Virtual Salt A Glossary of Literary Terms from Robert Harris Virtual Salt Rhetorical Devices from R Harris. Wikipedia Literary Terms. Words of Art Writing Tools from Matthew Alexander Please email comments etc about the entries. Please put the literary term being discussed in your missive on the subject line.
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