Locating+Literary+Devices

**Locating Literary Devices**
Section 5.4 (Instructional Strategy 10)

This strategy can be implemented as prereading, during reading, or postreading. It incorporates the three important elements of challenge, choice, and collaboration, which are effective in keeping students motivated. Students must be familiar with these challenging terms, choose examples to demonstrate their knowledge, and collaborate to complete the assignment in agreement in small groups.
 * Rationale:**

1. Teach or ensure that students know the meaning of irony, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole. 2. Provide students with a Literary Devices reproducible. 3. Have students find an example of each of the terms listed above in step one in any of the literature you have read together in class. 4. Direct students to write the name of the source, the page number, and the example next to the literary term as listed on the reproducible. 5. You may also have students use a 3x5 notecard to write the literary term on the front and the location, page number, and example on the back.
 * Instructions:**

This is a great way to ensure that students have a firm grasp on several varying literary devices. It allows them to use each other as resources and share their examples/hear examples with other students. This would be an effective strategy to use when wading through a poem steeped in more literary devices than others.
 * Applications for Language Arts:**