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Argument |
A form of inquiry, process in which you test your beliefs, change your view, open mind |
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Rhetoric |
Writing' speech, visual images used to affect how people think and act |
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8 basic elements of rhetoric |
Persuade, audience, claims, issues, evidence, reasoning, assumptions, appeals |
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Evidnece + explanation |
The support you give your claims so that other will accept them |
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A Modest Proposal argument |
Uses satire to convince the government to help the poor in Ireland by suggesting that they eat babies |
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Importance of close reading |
Helps gain insight which you then convey in writing |
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Critical reading |
Careful analysis of the various aspects of a text |
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Plot in reference to short fiction |
Centres on human beings who can be seen as in engaging in actions, being acted upon or both |
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Alliteration |
Connection of words by repetition of the initial constinance sound |
Crazy kids craving candy |
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Assonance |
Repwtition of vowel sounds to connect words |
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Enjambment |
Absence of punctuation at the end of a line of poetry which directs us to continue to the next line without pause |
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Protagonist |
The main character in literary work |
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Antagonist |
The character who most notably opposes protagonist |
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Differences between primary and secondary sources |
Primary - literary text you're focusing on Secondary - additional research you consult |
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Policy of referencing/citing common knowledge |
You do not need to cite if it is something that anybody could know or could easily find |
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Citation format English classes uses |
MLA |
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Narrator |
Person who tells the story |
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"In media res" |
Beginning the story in the middle of the plot |
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Thesis + it's purpose |
A short statement that explains your interpretation and the purpose of your paper |
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Story Of An Hour argument about martiage |
It was mostly companionship and stiffed woman's individuality |
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In media res in A Rose For Emily |
It increases the suspense for it to be told in a non-linear fashion |
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Emily Grierson |
Sort of a fallen monument, part of a gone-by era |
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Faith in Young Goodman Brown |
1. His wife's name 2. Stands for everything that he holds as pure/innocent in life |
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Dialogue in Hills Like White Elephants |
It minimizea the seriousnesa of topic abortion |
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Compare/contrast hunger artist and panther in The Hunger Artist |
The artist is never contempt or satisfied, physically or emotionally, panther is because he only seeks physical comfort |
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"The fear of blushing" in The Things They Carried |
Young men were terrified, but were ashames to let their feeling show |
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Treatment of woman in A Good Man Is Hard To Find |
Women represent emotions and glue that holds the families together |
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Is Sammy a reliable narrator in A&P |
Not really, because his actions were biost based om his feelings towards the girls |
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what is Walker saying about heritage in Everyday's Use |
Physical items can represent it, but it's actually about what you carry in your heart |
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Desctibe Phoenix Jackson in A Worn Path |
Physically - small, elderly, wrinkled, dressed in rafs, poor Emotionally - selfless, loving, smart, caring, demonstrates unconditional love |
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Syntax |
The order of words that form phrases and sentences |
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Imagery |
Anything that affects your 5 senses |
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Metaphor&simile |
Metaphors - comparisons Simile - also a comparison, but uses "like" or "as" |
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Sonnet + explain 2 types |
Structured poems consisting of 14 lines. Shakespearean - 3 quatrains + couplet Italian - octave + sestet |
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Tone of Western Wind |
One of love and longing |
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Imagery in Dover Beach |
It excetuates the lovely surroundings to establisg their intimacy |
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You Fit Into Me |
2 couplets that show love and savagery directly |
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Sestina + Bishop's poem |
A poem made up from 6 stanzas that are 6 lines long and a trenza at the end. The story is of a child and grandma who are grieving |
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Bishops - One Art |
We are not destroyed by our loses, they are a part of life and with peace of mind we must accept this |
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In what form is One Art composed |
Villanelle |
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Compare The Lamb and The Tyger |
Lamb is innocent, compared to Jesus. Tyger is powerful predator described as a machine |
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3 powerful symbols in London |
chimney sweeps cries,soldier's blood, harlets |
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What structure We Real Cool does the reader focus on |
"We", young men in the poem |
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the mother |
Abortions that she has had |
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My Last Duchess |
Dramatic monologue |
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Complaint in My Last Duchess |
Young wife's joy with other things |
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A Red, Red Rose |
Uses simile and repetition |
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She Walks In Beauty |
The comparison of light and darkness |
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Major themes in Dickinson's poetry |
Love, faith, death |
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Major theme in Wild Nights - Wild Nights |
The passion imagined |
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"Last onset" in I Heard A Fly Buzz when I Died |
The end of lige, beginning of eternal life |
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Because I could Not Stop For Death |
Death is presentes as a gentlemen collar escortinf her to grave |
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3 statements Donne make about love's nature |
It is harmelss, endleas and pure |
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Prevalent imagery in Crossing The Bar |
Moving out to sea into the deep |
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Most common topic of sonnets |
Romantic love |
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Most common meter of sonnets |
Iambic pentameter |
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Unique about Shakespeares Sonnet 130 |
Describes his love as a human not a Goddess |
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Common theme in To The Virgins, To His Coy Mistress, To An Athlete Dying Young |
Carpe diem |
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Theme in Theme For English B |
We are all part of one another, like it or not |
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Allusion in Facing It |
He is a prisoner of his memories |
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Compare My Papa's Waltz and Those Winter Sundays |
Both are relationships with fathers. Waltz is a love filled memory, Sundays is a regret |
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Theme in The Negro Speaks Of Rivers |
His lineage (the history of his people) |
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A Dream Deferred |
Putting aside one's hopes will eventually destroy one |
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Wit overall theme |
In life, kindness is most important |
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How does Vivian represent all mankind in Wit? |
We are all so focused on being the best, but at the end of life, when we are stripped of everything ekse, all that matters is how we were treated and how we treat others |
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