General Curriculum

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Assonance

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the repetition of vowel sounds within lines or throughout the poem

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Comedy

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a dramatic genre that deals with everyday or amusing events

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Nonfiction

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writting that is not fiction or poetry

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Warrants

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lay ou the logical principle by which the writer links claims to reasons and evidence

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Short Story

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a brief narration, longer than a sketch and contains a greater degree of plot and character development

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Tragedy

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characterized by solemn or heroic actions and usually ends unhappily for the main character

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Metonymy

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substitutes one word for another which it is is closely associated too

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Sonnets

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lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter

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Apostrophe

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a person addresses a thing that is absent or abstract

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Essay

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form of nonfiction literature

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Lyric Poems

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short and express a poet's personal thoughts

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Epigrams

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a two-line satirical or witty poem

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Metaphor

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a comparison of 2 unlike things by calling one thing by the name of another

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Soliloquy

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a character untters his thoughts aloud or at length

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Simile

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compares two things using the words like or as

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Colloquial Diction

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the language of everyday converstation and informal writing

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Hyperbole

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a fanciful or vivid exaggeration

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Alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds in a poem

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Haiku

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form of a Japanes short poem.
Consisting of 3 lines and 17 syllables

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Elegies

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commemorating the life of someone who has died

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Drama

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texts written to be performed on stage

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Personification

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atributes human characteristics to a thing or idea

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Meter

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a repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syallables in a poem

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fiction

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a narrative, not concerned with events or characters from real life

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Novel

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a longer work of fiction. Plot and character development

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Flashbacks

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narrations of events in the past of the main narration

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Litotes

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Opposite of hyperbole understates a thought or attribute

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Foreshadowing

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hints at the future events or conculsions

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Ballads

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narrative poem that were originally sung and continue to have a song like structure

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Melodrama

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a popular drama with clear-cut heroes and villains

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Oxymoron

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describes something using words with opposite meanings

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Rhythm

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the regular alteration of stressed and unstressed syllable in a poem

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Myths, Parables, Fables, Folktales, and Legends

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traditional forms of oral narrations

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Literacy Sketch

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a short narration, usually informal or humorous

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Epic Poems

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lengthy and celebrated heroic deeds, philiosophical ideas, and historical events

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Aside

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a character briefly speaks directly to the audience

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Prose

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Poetry that is composed of short units such as lines and stanzas

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Declarative Sentences

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make statements of facts or opinions

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Imperative Sentences

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commands

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Subjunctive Sentences

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expresses wishes, desires, doubts, or suppositions

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Interrogative Sentences

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ask questions