Literary Terms Assignment

Your Individual Task:

Each student is responsible for defining 16 literary terms in your own words . Define as many as possible on your own; you know many of these. You can make predictions about others. These terms will be useful to you as you continue to study literature. You will find formal definitions on any of the following sites, and you can check your definitions against these:

Glossary of Literary Terms
Literary Terms
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Open up a Microsoft Word Document so that you may produce a typed copy of the 16 literary terms listed below.

1. CHARACTERIZATION -
2. ANTAGONIST -
3. PROTAGONIST -
4. PLOT -
5. SETTING -
6. CLIMAX -
7. CONFLICT (INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL) -
8. METAPHOR -
9. SIMILE -
10. PERSONIFICATION -
11. FLASHBACK -
12. FORESHADOWING -
13. THEME -
14. RESOLUTION -
15. DIALOGUE -
16. SYMBOL -

Your Group Task:

The class will be compiling a picture dictionary of literary elements with examples from the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.Each group will be assigned 2 of the 16 terms. Your group will create a picture dictionary page that defines the assigned terms, illustrates the terms in a picture that will help your classmates better understand and remember the terms, and demonstrates your understanding of the terms by giving examples from the novel.
Your work will be evaluated according to a rubric.