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Literary Devices Lesson
Literary Devices Lesson
Literary Devices Lesson
Objective: Students will identify literary devices using popular music and prior knowledge and will
provide their own examples to demonstrate mastery.
Syntax Activity Script
Motivation Using the white boards, I will quiz the What is a literacy device? (F)
and state the students to assess prior knowledge to
objective guide instruction. (Teachers should have Do you remember figurative language?
benchmark data prior.) Can you list some? (F)
Student beliefs regarding poetry and Do you enjoy poetry? (E)
literacy devices will be diagnosed and Please move to a side of the room to show
challenged. I use thumbs up/side/down. whether you like poetry. (F) (Instructor
Discuss the terms “literary device/ will wait and then take count.) The same
figurative language. I have them draw the movement will be asked in regards to
Statue of Liberty and then pick one word it music.
“stands” for.
Students will be asked to move to a Hate
Poetry side of the room or a Love Poetry In what music that you listen to, do you
side. Then ask if they like music/songs to believe that the artist might use literary
move to a side! Should be interesting! devices? (A)
Closure: Students are asked whether they gained any useful information or strategy from the lesson plan.
Students are told that the lesson plan was formatted to tap into their prior knowledge so that they could
have a better assessment for their own understanding of literary devices. Did you enjoy the lesson today?
(F) Were there any aspects of the lesson that added to your overall knowledge of the information? (A)
Were there any aspects of the lesson that detracted from your learning today?
Poetry Vocabulary
Alliteration
Sandra N. Kaplan, USC
Character
Concrete poem
Couplet
Description
Dialect
Dialogue
Diction
Extended metaphor
Fantasy
Figurative language
Figure of speech
Foot -( two or more syllables that together = the smallest unit of rhythm in poem)
Free verse
Genre
Haiku
Humor
Idiom
Images
Limerick
Lyric poem
Metaphor
Meter
Narrative
Narrative poem
Onomatopoeia
oxymoron
Poetry
Refrain
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Rhythm
Simile
Sound devices
Stanza
tone