Dubliners Lesson Plan

Poetic Devices

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to identify and analyze figurative language in Joyce's prose

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.4 ; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.1

Structure:

Working in pairs, students should conduct a "scavenger hunt" to find examples of poetic devices in the stories read for today. Devices might include, among others:

alliteration

onomatopoeia

anthropomorphism

zoomorphism

metaphor

simile

Together, they can first look online to find definitions for these terms, and subsequently find examples in the text, preferably a unique example for each poetic device. They should also write a sentence or two...