Literary Terms Booklet

Final Project-Short Story Unit

Ms. Colvin

 

Assignment: You are creating a book of literary terms for children; it should be informational, as well as entertaining. You will find the Literary Terms Handbook in the back of your Literature textbook to be very helpful (pgs R1-R13).

1. Design a book that contains 15 literary terms, one on each page.
2. Each page should include:

*Term

*Definition

*Picture that illustrates the term

*Brief explanation of how the picture relates to the term

3. Your book should include a table of contents and have a neat and creative cover.
4. Each page should be numbered.

 

Scoring Rubric

Table of Contents                           7 pts

Neat & Creative Cover                  8 pts

Neat & Creative Booklet              10pts

15 pages                                                75pts

                                                          (1 pt for each definition)

                                                          (2pts for each picture)

                                                          (2pts for each explanation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List of Literary Terms to Use

 

Alliteration

Allusion

Analogy

Aside

Assonance

Climax

Conflict

Consonance

Dialect

Irony

Monologue

Hyperbole

Exposition

Metaphor

Rising Action

Falling Action

Personification

Simile

Oxymoron

Symbol

Flashback

Foil

Foreshadowing

Motif

Ode

Onomatopoeia

Paradox

Parallelism

Parody

Point of view

Pun

Repetition

Resolution

Rhyme

Satire

Sensory Details

Soliloquy

Stereotype

Suspense

Theme

Tone

Tragic Flaw

Tragic Hero

Understatement