8.9.E
The Standard
identify and analyze the use of literary devices, including multiple points of view and irony
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify different narrators or viewpoints in a text and compare what each reveals, believes, or leaves out. They identify irony and explain how it affects meaning, tone, or reader expectations.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students identify shifts between narrators and explain how each viewpoint changes the reader’s judgment of events or characters. They name the type of irony and support their analysis with specific details.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse the narrator with the author or assume every narrator is reliable. They may label any surprising event as irony without explaining the contrast between expectation and reality.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short passage with two narrators and an ironic ending. Ask them to identify each viewpoint and explain how the irony shapes the reader’s understanding.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs two eyewitness accounts of one event, then have them highlight conflicting details and explain what each speaker notices or hides.
Ask students to write which narrator they trust more and support their choice with two details from the text.
Play Irony Sort with scenario cards labeled verbal, situational, dramatic, or not irony, requiring a spoken reason for each choice.
Compare two news reports about the same event and identify how word choice and selected facts create different viewpoints. Localize the event to a school board decision, sports game, or community issue.
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Related Standards
- 5.10.E
identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
- 6.9.E
identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose;
- 3.10.E
identify the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
- 4.10.E
identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;
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