Lesson Six - Literary Terms

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Date: Thursday, 18 September 2025, 10:18 PM

Description

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Introduction


startLesson Six - Literary Terminology
Duration - 2 blocks (2 x 80 min + homework)
"Fortune favours the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur 

In the first five lessons of this unit, all of the notes for ELA 10-1 have been presented.
It is not possible to commit all of the literary terms to memory, but memorizing a few of them will serve you well for future English study.

Lesson


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Literary Terms Worth Memorizing . . .
The list of literary terms below are ones that should be part of your vocabulary – you will hear and read the terms (and examples) used on a daily basis.

Some of these terms will recur during the lessons in this course.   Begin to familiarize yourself with these terms as you continue the lessons.

alliteration
allusion 
analogy 
anecdote 
character 
clichĂ© 
conflict 
context 
contrast 
excerpt

foreshadowing 
hyperbole 
imagery 
irony 
juxtaposition 
metaphor 
mood 
narrator 
oxymoron 
paradox
personification 
purpose 
setting 
simile 
speaker 
symbol 
theme 
thesis 
tone 
understatement

Assignment

assignmentASSIGNMENT U1L6 (100 marks)
Open a new PowerPoint document. Label it E101U1L6surname 
In this document, complete the assignment outlined below.
Submit this assignment using the Assignment Folder for U1L6 literary terms

Select at least 15 of the terms below, up to 30, and provide the following information on a PPT slide:
 term
 definition
 example
 source (text and author)
 graphic/photo to illustrate

Use the terms that you are not familiar with or that you do not know very well.  You can do as many as you like, but you must have at least 15 in your PPT presentation.

Click here for an example.

alliteration
allusion 
analogy 
anecdote 
character 
cliché 
conflict 
context 
contrast 
excerpt

foreshadowing 
hyperbole 
imagery 
irony 
juxtaposition 
metaphor 
mood 
narrator 
oxymoron 
paradox
personification 
purpose 
setting 
simile 
speaker 
symbol 
theme 
thesis 
tone 
understatement

Conclusion


stop iconThis assignment in this lesson will have helped to prepare you for the upcoming lessons and your high school English endeavours.