R7.2 Oral Presentation Exercise: Relate Literary Devices to Theme
Literary Core Skill:
Rhetoric Level 7: Relate the use of literary devices in various titles to their main themes.
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Elements of Fiction:
Assignment Type:
Description:
On this worksheet, teachers grade and record student presentations relating literary devices in the current story to the story’s themes.
Additional lists of common literary devices in fiction, along with their definitions, are provided at www.centerforlitschools.com/glossary-of-literary-devices. These include voice and tone as well as rhetorical devices such as amplification, contradiction, refutation, pathos, and others.
Grading Rubric:
Equal parts credit for a) plausibility of interpretation and b) quality of oral presentation (poise, diction, etc.).