Playing with Literary Devices

with the Changling

Lesson Plan:

Playing with Literary Devices with Jordan Caldwell

Worksheet:

Creating Forever by the.changeling

Grades: 9-12

Students will learn juxtaposition, oxymoron, and paradox by first identifying them in a spoken-word piece that has been performed for them, creating their own examples, and then finally utilizing one of the chosen literary devices in a poem of their own.

Materials: A writing utensil and paper