Articles related to "Literary Devices"

The plot of a novel is the plan for the story. A writer should use it to accomplish his or her purpose for the manuscript he or she is writing.

Literary devices, also called figurative language, are used in writing fiction to create memorable imagery. Simile and metaphor are two of the easiest to learn.

Kate Chopin's Story of an Hour gives new meaning to the passing of time. Reader's are taken on a literary journey quite enlightening for both now and then.

The following list of poems will show students that poetry can be fun, exciting to learn and something they can relate to.

Theodore Dreiser uses money to illustrate Carrie's changing self-image. In this naturalistic novel, money and happiness come close, but never quite intersect.

By personifying time and using literary devices, the narrator illustrates how Time antagonizes him but that he is confident that he can retaliate against time and succeed

Students create books with recipes that reflect the personality and actions of literary characters in a tasty high school writing unit.

Writing a narrative can be quite challenging if students do not know the basic elements of a story.

The noted Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes, focused primarily on race relations in America during the 1920s and 1930s.

Orphaned children are a classic feature of children's stories. These children's books feature protagonists whose parents are either dead or missing.

Parentheses are the oft-ignored offspring of punctuation. But their use as a literary device in your writing could prove indispensable. It has for many great authors.

Writers need to know how to weave the back story into the plot without boring the reader. One way they can do this is to master the use of exposition.

Creative nonfiction is a hard-to-define genre. Also known as narrative nonfiction, personal journalism, and memoir, it is increasingly popular and amazingly diverse.

Many writers use figurative language to create auditory imagery for their readers including: alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, and consonance.

Start the year out with a fun literary icebreaker activity that teaches figurative language and literary devices.

Eve Merriam's poem "How to Eat a Poem" can be the basis for several journal prompts and writing activities for sixth to eighth grade students.

Who says that memorizing literary definitions has to be boring? Children can use kinesthetic skills and sense of fun to understand and remember literary terms!

The main character, based on author J.M. Coetzee, writes a series of scathing political essays for a German publisher while entertaining feelings for his young typist

The sarcastic narrator in Atwood's poem scorns the confusion society expresses between emotional and purely physical love.

Use the picture book Mouse's First Spring in an elementary reading lesson plan teaching elementary students how to use literary devices of onomatopoeia and alliteration

Slow Man, by South African native and Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, is a dreamy meditation on a life fundamentally changed by a devastating accident.

Following the footsteps of the characters in Daphne du Maurier's novel 'Jamaica Inn' shows how much remains unchanged on Bodmin Moor.

"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" examines the psychological dimensions of power and dictatorship upon colonized subjects. Published in 1831, it still offers stark insights.

This is the first part of a series. It references many events throughout comic book history, so spoilers ahead.

Donne's "The Flea" is a poem of a man attempting to seduce a woman in a peculiar way: the image of a flea.

Feminist Liberation Theology strives to empower women even while working within the traditionally patriarchal structure of the church.

Lord Byron's poem, "Don Juan," is not only a poem about the legendary lover but a critical look at politics and the arts.

Whether you're writing reviews for magazines, newspapers or on-line, the following will help you take your first steps to writing killer book reviews.

William E. Dimorier (pronounced Dimoree) was ahead of his time when he self-published two books of poems in the 1940s.

Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino is a poem about African/Western relationships often studied by literature students throughout the world.

If you're studying Coleridge or any other British Romantic poets in college, university, or any another classroom, here's the lowdown on one of his more famous poems.

Claude McKay, a Harlem Renaissance writer, wrote the poem, "Tiger" to express his frustration with America and and the oppression of the African-Americans.

Homeland presents a woman's perspective in both the North and South in this complex and satisfying story of what the war really meant to the people who lived it.

While many writers of speculative fiction have a great idea of how their hero or heroine might act in any given situation, the same cannot always be said for villains!

The following article shows writers how to use flashbacks and flash forwards by examining the film Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Stephen King's The Dead Zone novel.

Ideas for exploring literature and language from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, for younger and older homeschoolers.

This book by Steven Kroll can be used to develop understanding of history, writing, ability to compare and contrast, sequence, and multicultural awareness.

Response paper is a critical evaluation or, more specifically, an intellectual response to a piece of writing, movie or work of art.

Scottish health officers engage in paths of self destruction and exploration, but tired motifs drag down an entertaining premise.

Three journal prompts and writing exercises to use in high school English and literature lesson plans about Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street.

A multi-day middle school lesson plan that lets students learn about various literary terms by creating their own readers' theater scripts.

Teaching poetry can seem a daunting task. By bringing the music, form and imagery of a poem to life, it can instead be a rewarding one.

Moby Dick is Herman Melville's magnum opus, and it is now widely considered to be one of the great American novels.

In the novel Rocheworld, Robert L. Forward defies the standards by creating a science fiction book with motion based on real science.

The Scroll of Esther, an early and exquisite historical novella, deserves literary appreciation along with Old Testament favorites like Psalms, Proverbs, and Prophets

The book of "Esther" employs tropes of modern writing to tell a tight, well written story of how one woman saved the Hebrew nation.

Readers know a poem when they see it, but poetry does more than exist as a form: poetry portrays and often dramatizes the experience of human emotional life.

Regardless of whether a book is science fiction, fantasy fiction, or literary fiction, agents and editors all say the same thing: Writers need a great hook.

Form, diction, metaphor, and other literary devices enhance the poignancy of Thomas's most noted poem.

Use the book Dandelions: Stars in the Grass in spring-themed elementary language arts lesson plan teaching how to identify and use figurative language - imagery, simile.