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Onomatopoeia

Describes words that sound like their meanings (e.g. buzz, pop).

EDSITEment Lesson Plans that use "Onomatopoeia"

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Nonsense Poetry and Whimsy
• Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
• Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes

Oral History

Description of past events by word of mouth, and more recently through audio and video recordings.

EDSITEment Lesson Plans that use "Oral History"

• Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
• What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories

Persona

The person created by an author to tell the story. See also: narrator.

EDSITEment Lesson Plans that use "Persona"

• Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost

Personification

Attributing human characteristics to animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects.

EDSITEment Lesson Plans that use "Personification"

• A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
• Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales
• Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive
• Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
• Pictures in Words: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes
• Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction
• Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures

Plot

Attributing human characteristics to animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects.

EDSITEment Lesson Plans that use "Plot"

• A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
• Fairy Tales Around the World
• Quest for the American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun
• Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction
• Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures
• William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South

Point-of-view

The perspective from which a story is told. See also: voice.

EDSITEment Lesson Plans that use "Point-of-view"

• Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral
• Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
• Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"
• William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South