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Activity Overview


When teaching poetry, it is often helpful to refresh or introduce students with technical words. Terms like “metaphor", "alliteration", "personification", "imagery", "apostrophe", and "assonance" are a few important terms.

After you have read the poem, ask your students to do a scavenger hunt using the storyboard creator. Give them the list again and have them create a storyboard that depicts and explains the use of each literary element in the poem. They will have an absolute blast and gain mastery of the words.

Examples of Literary Elements Shelley uses in "Ozymandias"

DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
Personification Giving human-like characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas “The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.”
Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words in a sentence or line “And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command”
Assonance The repetition of a vowel sound “Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,”
Imagery The use of descriptive or figurative language to create vivid mental imagery that appeals to the senses “Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Apostrophe A direct address to an absent person, concept, or inanimate object “‘Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’”


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Student Instructions

Create a storyboard that shows five examples of literary elements in "Ozymandias".


  1. Click "Start Assignment".
  2. Identify use of literary elements in the text.
  3. Put the type of literary element in the title box.
  4. Give an example from the text in the description box.
  5. Illustrate the example using using a combination of scenes, characters, and items.

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Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level 6-12

Difficulty Level 3 (Developing to Mastery)

Type of Assignment Individual or Partner

Type of Activity: Figurative Language

Common Core Standards
  • [ELA-Literacy/RL/6/4] Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone
  • [ELA-Literacy/RL/7/4] Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama
  • [ELA-Literacy/L/6/6] Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression

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Literary Elements Rubric
Create a storyboard that shows different literary elements from the story.
Proficient Emerging Beginning
Identification of Literary Elements
All literary elements are correctly identified.
Most literary elements are correctly identified.
Few literary elements are correctly identified.
Illustration
Illustrations show attention to the details of the story and demonstrate connection to the literary elements.
Illustrations demonstrate connection to the literary elements.
Illustrations show little connection to the literary elements.
Description of Literary Elements
Descriptions clearly explain what the literary elements do to enhance the story.
Most descriptions tell what the literary elements do to enhance the story.
Descriptions are unrelated to the literary elements.
Spelling and Grammar
Spelling and grammar is mostly accurate. Mistakes do not get in the way of understanding.
Spelling is very inaccurate and hinders full understanding.
Text is very difficult to understand.


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  • Bruneau Sand Dune sunset • The Knowles Gallery • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
  • Desert • Moyan_Brenn • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
  • Fairy tale window (Egypt) • Ahron de Leeuw • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
  • Sphinx • Keith Yahl • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
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