Identify and analyze examples of literary elements that shape meaning within context (i.e., flashback, foreshadowing, irony, mood, symbolism, tone). SPI 0801.8.7

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1. Critical Concepts - Dramatic Irony
2. Critical Concepts - Verbal Irony
3. Dictionary of Symbolism - students look up objects of symbolism and see how it is used in literature.
4. Mr. Bailey's Literary Terms Quiz - ten multiple choice questions - keep track of your answers, the answer page gives answers but does not tell you if you were right or wrong
5. Writing a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Using Movies and Texts as Models - Students are introduced to examples of these devices through the film The Sandlot and/or illustrated books. Students are then asked to create a story that contains both flashback and flash-forward.
6. Using Eudora Welty's The Ponder Heart to illustrate verbal and situational irony
   

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