Lesson Six - Literary Terminology
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| Date: | Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 4:50 AM |
Introduction
Lesson 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 20-1 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 as you move through the exams in this course and most certainly on Part B of your final exam.
Lesson
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.
The vast majority of these terms are guaranteed to appear on the genre exams in this course, as well as Part B of your ELA 20-1 final exam and Part B of your ELA 30-1 diploma exam. In a study conducted on twenty sittings of Part B exams, “irony” was found on 100%, “allusion”, “imagery”, “metaphor”, and “tone” on 75-99%, “context”, “contrast”, “mood”, “paradox”, “purpose”, “setting”, “symbol”, and “theme” on 50-74%, with the remainder appearing 25-49% of the time.
Of course, there are certainly other terms which will appear on Part B of your exams, but in relatively low frequency. Committing these terms to memory will serve you well on the exam and in your daily life.
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alliteration |
foreshadowing
hyperbole imagery irony juxtaposition metaphor mood narrator oxymoron paradox |
personification
purpose setting simile speaker symbol theme thesis tone understatement |
Assignment
ASSIGNMENT (50 marks)
Open a new PowerPoint document. Label it E201U1L6surname
In this document, complete the assignment outlined below.
Submit this assignment using the Assignment Folder for U1L6 literary terms
Use the definitions and examples that are in your poetry notes to help you create your PPT!!
For EACH of the 30 terms listed on the Lesson page, provide the following information on a PPT slide:
term
definition
example
graphic/photo to illustrate the example.
You may use the definitions and examples that are in your poetry notes to complete this assignment.
You are creating a study aid to use for the exams in this course, including your final exam. Under pressure, having a graphic to recall an example which may then help you to recall the definition of the term, would be most useful!
Theory Exam Tutorial
THEORY EXAM
The Theory Exam is a password-protected exam will be written online, administered and supervised by your distributed learning supervisor.
- You will read one EACH of the following texts:
- non-fiction
- poem
- short story
- photo
- 24 questions multiple choice questions on the four texts.
- You will also complete a matching exercise on literary terminology.
- Be sure to review the PowerPoint you have just created!
BEFORE writing the Theory Exam, watch this
Conclusion
The assignment in this lesson will have helped to prepare you for the Theory Exam.
Your PowerPoint is a valuable set of study notes to which you should refer prior to writing any reading comprehension exam in this course, including Part B of your final exam!