Imagery Imagery is an important tool in poetry. When you hear the term imagery, you might think of visual images. Imagery, however, can and should involve all five senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste. Language that describes things we can see, hear, smell, touch, or taste is known as concrete language. Good poetry is ...
Demographic Information: This lesson plan sequence is to be used with 4th or 5th grade students. The setting is an average sized elementary school in a small city in Iowa. The students have varying reading abilities and there are several students who are English language learners. There are 23 students, 14 boys and 9 girls. ...
There have been several poems written expressing all the possible emotions a person can feel. When reading the title of Sylvia Plath’s poem, “A Birthday Present,” the reader is likely to interpret a positive connotation from the title and prepare him or herself for a poem evoking the emotion of happiness, excitement, or pleasure. Herein ...
Figurative language is an important skill for making writing come alive. With kids, it is necessary for them to be able to identify different types of figurative language. However, it is also vital to teach to use this literary tool without overusing it in writing. These resources are helpful for teaching about similes and metaphors. ...
Writing a literary essay on themes can be hard if you don’t know what the themes are in the story or how to find them. That’s usually the case with most students who are used to writing about literature. Digging into the very heart of a story or novel can be hard, but it doesn’t ...
Literature is an art and not a science. Therefore, it is difficult to provide comprehensive definitions of different forms of literature. For the most part, the epic can be defined as being a long narrative about great deeds or a serious subject. The narratives are often told in an elevated style, employing a formal and ...
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