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euphemism

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An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant; EX: economically depressed neighborhood for "poor"

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william wordsworth

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wrote Lyrical Ballads Romantic writer 1770-1850

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the color purple

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Alice Walker Story of a protagonist who is repeatedly raped by a man she thinks is her father. A missionary family in Africa adopts the resulting children. The protagonist's sister, Nettie, works for the missionary family, and the novel takes the form of a series of letters between the sisters. Name this Pulitzer Prize winning novel featuring Celie.

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maya angelou

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; " Women Work"; 1960

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alice walker

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The Color Purple A Female African American author and poet. She wrote The Color Purple; self-declared feminist and womanist; For Color Purple recieved the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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beloved

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Toni Morrison 1987 story is about an African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who temporarily escaped slavery. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured.Margaret is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

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gullivers travels

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novel Jonathan Swift 1726 satire

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hyperbole

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A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor

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reverent

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respectful

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jovial

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cheerful and friendly

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semantic feature analysis

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A graphic organizer using a grid to compare a series of words or other items on a number of characteristics.

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the secret life of bees

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author: Sue Monk Kid Lily, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. As the novel opens, she lies in bed, waiting for the bees that live in the walls of her bedroom to emerge and fly around, as they do most nights. T. Ray, her father, is abusive and does not believe her story about the bees. Her nanny and housekeeper, Rosaleen, believes Lily but also thinks Lily is foolish for trying to collect the bees in a jar. Lily recalls her very last memory of her mother, Deborah, who died when Lily was a small child. Lily thinks that she played a horrible part in Deborah's death.

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lyrical ballads

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example of writers include: Wordsworth and Coleridge; work that kicked off the Romantic period, published in 1789, collaboration of Samuel Coleridge Taylor and William Wordsworth

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romanticism

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19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason; A reaction to neo-classicism that focuses on emotion over reason and spontaneous expression. Subject matter was invested with drama and painted in brilliant colors. Goya

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neoclassicism

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the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome

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reciprocal teaching

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Approach to teaching reading and listening comprehension in which students take turns asking teacher-like questions of classmates.

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jigsaw

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educational approach designed to minimize prejudice by requiring all children to make independent contributions to a shared project

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assonance

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Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

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alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds; Peter Piper Pepper

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oxymoron

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A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

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anthem

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individualism

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background building

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using what the students already know

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annotation

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Explanatory or critical notes added to a text.

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vernacular

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Everyday language of ordinary people

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simplistic

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oversimplified treating complex issues and problems as if they were much simpler than they really are

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simple

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easy

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mock epic

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A work of literature that applies the characteristics and conventions of epic poetry to trivial subject matter for the sake of humor, irony, parody, or satire

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analogous

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similar or alike in some way; equivalent to

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oxford english dictionary

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a book that gives current, common meanings of a word, and a history of the different ways a word has been used since its entry into the language

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contempt

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a feeling of disdain for anything considered mean or worthless

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metonymy

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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").

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style manual

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documenting sources

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preposition

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Demonstrates relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. A word such as by, at, to, or from that gives additional information, usually in relationship to something else in the sentence.

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interjection

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A word that expresses emotion exclamation; Ex. "Ouch''

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satire

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is used in many works of literature to show foolishness or vice in humans, organizations, or even governments - it uses sarcasm, ridicule, or irony. For example, satire is often used to effect political or social change, or to prevent it.; Mark Twain - realist

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epic

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A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society

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myth

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A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.

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mis

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wrong

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in

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not

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allegory

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A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions; the whole story; different from symbolism (one object)

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piaget

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Stages of Cognitive Development

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skinner

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Operant conditioning Behaviorism consequences and reinforcers

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who or whom

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him or her = whom (object), he or she = who (subject)

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vygotsky

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learning precedes development; zone of proximal development

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paradox

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A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

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metaphor

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A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.

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fahrenheit 451

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1953 dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them. The plot that takes place in a futuristic America, a firefighter (Guy Montag) decides to buck society, stop burning books, and start seeking knowledge; themes: censorship, knowledge vs. ignorance, religion as a knowledge giver

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the secret life of bees

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novel of Imagery Lily, a fourteen-year-old white girl, lives alone with her father, a peach farmer, in Sylvan, South Carolina. As the novel opens, she lies in bed, waiting for the bees that live in the walls of her bedroom to emerge and fly around, as they do most nights. T. Ray, her father, is abusive and does not believe her story about the bees. Her nanny and housekeeper, Rosaleen, believes Lily but also thinks Lily is foolish for trying to collect the bees in a jar. Lily recalls her very last memory of her mother, Deborah, who died when Lily was a small child. Lily thinks that she played a horrible part in Deborah's death.

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shakespeare

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Macbeth Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Julius Caesar Sonnet 18 A Midsummer Night's Dream

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sonnet

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14 line poem

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tone

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attitude

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conceit

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an extended metaphor

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connotation

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meaning or feeling of a word

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denotation

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The dictionary definition of a word

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diction

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A writer's or speaker's choice of words

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soliloquy

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A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage

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freud

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Austrian physician who approached psychology while trying to treat mental disorders, focused on the unconscious; ego, superego, id

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voice

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The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the author.

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compound sentence

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compound two independent clauses with the use of a conjunction (and, but, so); EX: I looked for Mary and Samantha at the bus station, but they arrived at the station before noon and left on the bus before I arrived.

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complex sentence

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independent clause and dependent clause; EX: Because Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station before noon, I did not see them at the station. OR: Mary and Samantha realized that Joe was waiting at the train station after they left on the bus.

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compound complex sentence

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TWO independent clauses; ONE or more dependent clauses. EX: "His blue eyes were light, bright and sparkling behind half-mooned spectacles, and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice."

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point of view

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mode of narration First person- I and we Second person- you Third person- he, she, they

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john locke

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English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.

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robert burns

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A Red, Red Rose (Romantic Era)

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john keats

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English Romantic poet; Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

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charles dickens

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Great Expectations; English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870) A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist

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mark twain

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a writer and humorist Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 1835-1910 realistic fiction

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lewis carroll

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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joseph conrad

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Heart of Darkness Victorian Age

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james joyce

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Ulysses An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses, a stream of consciousness book that mirrored Homer's book

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t s eliot

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The Wasteland jazz poet modernist works included theme of not being able to find meaning in life

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thomas paine

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Author of Common Sense The age of reason American Colonial Period author

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colonial

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1630-1760 period included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Captain John Smith.

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transcendentalist

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a union of self with nature emerson; rousseau; thoureau; whitman; hawthorne; dickinson

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ralph waldo emerson

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Self-Reliance; Transcendentalist 1803-1880

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edgar allan poe

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1830 The Raven The Tell-Tale Heart Annabelle Lee American Romantic Period

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herman melville

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1851 Transcendental author of Moby Dick

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homer

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A Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey; featured the character "Odysseus" Greek epic poet

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henry james

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The portrait of a lady realism

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zora neale hurston

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Their Eyes Were Watching God Harlem Renaissance

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harlem renaissance

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1920's African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

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elizabethan age

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It was the height of the English Renaissance, and saw the flowering of the English literature and poetry

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ernest hemingway

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A Farewell to Arms Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms

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john steinbeck

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Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath Modernism

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the grapes of wrath

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Set during the Great Depression, this novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry. 1939 book by John Steinbeck, Tells the story of a poor tenant farmer family who were evicted (in large part due to Dust Bowl in OK), and migrate to CA to find work, Captured the attention of the nation to hardships faced by migrant farmers during the great depression

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the great gatsby

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F. S. Fitzgerald The book takes place from spring to autumn 1922, during a prosperous time in the United States known as the Roaring Twenties. It's about a self-made man who woos and loses a married aristocratic woman (Daisy) he loves

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arthur miller

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The Crucible

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the crucible

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Arthur Miller 1953 1692 Salem witch trials as his setting, but the work is really an allegorical protest against the McCarthy anti-Communist "witch-hunts" of the early 1950s. In the story, Elizabeth Proctor fires servant Abigail Williams after she finds out Abigail had an affair with her husband. In response, Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft. She stands trial and is acquitted, but then another girl accuses her husband, John, and as he refuses to turn in others, he is killed, along with the old comic figure, Giles Corey. Also notable: Judge Hathorne is a direct ancestor of the author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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james baldwin

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Go tell it on the mountain; postmodernist

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toni morrison

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Beloved first African-American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - 1990

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victor hugo

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French poet and novelist and dramatist Les Misérables The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1802-1885), wrote lyric poetry, amazing range of rhythm, language and image, equated freedom in literature with social and political liberty

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plato

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Socrates Student

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socrates

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Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying, "Know thyself." natural science

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j d salinger

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Catcher in the Rye

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the catcher in the rye

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bildungsroman; after being expelled from a prep school, a 16-year-old boy (Holden Caulfield) goes to NYC, where he reflects on the phoniness of adults and heads towards a nervous breakdown

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amy tan

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The Joy Luck Club (born in China) But an American writer. She is widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese-American experience of the late 20th century. Her works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.

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gabriel marquez

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A Colombian author who won the Nobel Prize in 1982. His best-known novels are One Hundred Years of Solitude and The General in His Labyrinth.

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sir thomas malory

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1450 Le Morte d'Arthur Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Wrote some of the best Arthurian romances in the middle ages.

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anne bradstreet

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To My Dear and Loving Husband Was an English-American writer. She was the first notable American poet; AND She was the first woman to be published in Colonial America. She wrote "In Reference to her Children"

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richard wright

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African-American author who wrote about racial oppression; The Man Who Was Almost a Man Native Son

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british

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Old English Medieval Renaissance Revolution Classicism Romantic Victorian Modernism

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american

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Colonial Revolutionary Romanticism Transcendentalism Realism Naturalism Modernism Lost Generation Harlem Renaissance Post Modern

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jane austen

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1830 Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Emma Manners and Morals

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colonial period

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1607-1776 The period of American literature in which Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, and Jonathan Edwards flourished as authors

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lost generation

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Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe A group of American writers that rebelled against America's lack of cosmopolitan culture in the early 20th century. Many moved to cultural centers such as London in Paris in search for literary freedom. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway

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jonathon edwards

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A minister who was a fluent believer of Calvinism in Massachusetts. He was a figure that championed Calvinism which contrasted with the Great Awakening and therefore was kicked out of his pulpit; "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 1703-1750

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a farewell to arms

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Ernest Hemingway A love story which draws heavily on the author's experiences as a young soldier in Italy. Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver during WWI. Falls in love with nurse Catherine Barkley. The Battle of Caporetto. In Switzerland, their child is born dead, and Catherine dies due to hemorrhages.

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red badge of courage

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Stephen Crane this selection realistically chronicles Henry Fleming's internal struggles to adapt to his environment *Civil War Battle

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a tale of two cities

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Charles Dickens 1859 revolves around the love triangle of Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and Sydney Carton and takes place in London and Paris on the eve of and during the French Revolution. Lucie and Darnay marry, and in the end Carton tricks the imprisoned Darnay, switches places with him, and is executed instead of Darnay, giving Carton's life meaning and saving the lives of Lucie, Darnay, and their daughter.

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a midsummer nights dream

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4 young people, 2 guys, 2 girls 2 guys in love with one girl, other girl in love with one of the guys. Go into woods, fairies put a spell to make one fall in love with each other Shakespeare

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coordinating conjunction

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FANBOYS=for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

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think pair share

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is a collaborative learning strategy in which students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading

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qar

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a strategy to be used after students have read. It teaches students how to decipher what types of questions they are being asked and where to find the answers to them

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synthetic language

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language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio

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acquired system

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A subconscious process. It's the act of internalizing language to which you have been exposed without the deliberate memorization of a word and its definition.

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isolating language

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language in which words tend to consist of a single morpheme

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learned system

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a conscious activity. It's what we do when we look a word up in the dictionary. It's also what happens when we learn rules about how language works or purposefully study lists of vocabulary and grammar forms

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pragmatics

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A branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in social contexts and the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings through language

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participle

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a word formed from a verb (e.g., going, gone, being, been ) and used as an adjective (e.g., working woman, burned toast ) or a noun (e.g., good breeding)

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anastrophe

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Inversion of the natural or usual word order

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aphorism

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a pithy observation that contains a general truth "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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epilogue

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a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.

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monologue

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a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program; silioquey

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persona

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the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others "her public view"

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an allegory

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Edumund Spencer Faire Queen

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ballad

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A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas characterized by swift action narrated in a direct style.

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limerick

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funny 5 lines a a b b a

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elegy

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a sorrowful poem or speech

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scaffolding

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Adjusting the support offered during a teaching session to fit the child's current level of performance

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collective noun

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A word that names a group EX: team

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appositive

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A noun or noun substitute that is placed directly next to the noun it is describing: My student, Sidney, makes me want to retire

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subject verb agreement

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Plural subjects must have plural verbs Singular subjects must have singular verbs

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infinitive

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A verb form, usually preceded by "to," that is used as a noun, adjective, or adverb. to + verb

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gerund

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A verb form ending in "-ing" that is used as a noun

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existentialism

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A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions

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hubris

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Excessive pride or self-confidence Excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy

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realism

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A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be

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naturalism

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A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was

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transcendentalism

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A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1830-1840 direct communication with God and Nature no need for organized churches Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions

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flat character

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2 dimensional character; does not change

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round character

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3 dimensional character; changes

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semantics

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Meaning of words and sentences

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octet

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8 lines in poetry

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sestet

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6 lines in poetry

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extended metaphor

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a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work poem (Ex: Robert Frost's use of two roads in "The Road Not Taken.")

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blending

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breakfast + lunch = brunch

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synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa coke for soda

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ode

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A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.

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motif

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a principal idea, feature, theme, or element a repeated or dominant figure in a design

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caesura

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A natural PAUSE or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

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figurative language

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what device makes reader think about the text?

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denouement

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an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot

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parts of a story

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Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution (or denouement)

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villanelle

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19 lines uses only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern

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archaic

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ancient old-fashioned

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enjambment

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A RUN-ON line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next

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epithet

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a descriptive term for a person or thing "the father of psychology" refers to Sigmund Freud

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malapropism

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humorous misuse of a word

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refrain

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A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem

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rhetoric

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The art of using language effectively and persuasively

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transcendentalist writers

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott, George Ripley, William Ellory Channing; Emily Dickinson; Rousseau

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pun

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A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

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charlotte bronte

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Jane Eyre 1816-1855 Victorian era

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emily bronte

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Wuthering Heights Rememberance 1818-1848 Wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell

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the wasteland

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T.S. Eliot 1922 considered the "American Epic" poem is a free verse modernistic poem inspired by the writings of Walt Whitman hopelessness, deprivation

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dante

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1265-1321 Italian poet and Renaissance writer His greatest work is The Divine Comedy Inferno

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william faulkner

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A Rose for Emily As I Lay Dying 1897-1962 used stream-of-consciousness technique

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the scarlett letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne Romantic American Prose The story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter "A" on her breast. As a young woman, Hester married an elderly scholar, Chillingworth, who sent her ahead to America to live but never followed her. While waiting for him, she had an affair with a Puritan minister named Dimmesdale, after which she gave birth to Pearl.

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the portrait of a lady

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Henry James novel that features the independent and intellectual Isabel Archer of Albany, NY The novel follows her struggles for independence and then, after her marriage to the Italian artist/socialite Gilbert Osmond, her struggle to be a good wife and step-mother despite Osmond treating her more as a wealthy trophy wife. In the end, through much intrigue, she remains faithful to Osmond, despite being pleaded with by Caspar Goodman, who has loved her since her days in NY.

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animal farm

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George Orwell Russia/USSR A fable about the Bolshevik revolution written by George Orwell "All Animals are Equal" later: "but some are more equal than others"

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flannery o'conner

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The life you save may be your own A Good Man Is Hard to Find

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mary shelley

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English novelist who wrote a "monster" story which raised questions about the potential negative impact of the rise of science Frankenstein science fiction Incorporated themes popular among romantics such as exotic, weird, mysterious, and even satanic elements of human nature

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one hundred years of solitude

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Gabriel Marquez Thinks ice is a diamond

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the call of the wild

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Jack London a pampered dog (Buck) adjusts to the harsh realities of life in the North as he struggles with his recovered wild instincts and finds a master (John Thorton) who treats him right; novel, adventure story, setting late 1890s

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the woman warrior

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1976 memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston known for its blending of voices and styles and for taking autobiography into the postmodern literary age. Kingston blends autobiography with ancient Chinese folk tales as she tells the stories of a long-dead aunt, "No-Name Woman"; a mythical female warrior, Fa Mu Lan; Kingston's mother, Brave Orchid; Kingston's aunt, Moon Orchid; and herself. These stories integrate her own experiences with "talk-stories" - blends of Chinese history, myths and beliefs - that her mother tells her. Maxine Hong Kingston

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to kill a mockingbird

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Harper Lee metaphor and foreshadow

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samuel beckett

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Waiting for Godot Novelist and playwright one of most influential writers of 20th c. Ireland, France 1906-1989 WHY: resistance fighter in France until 1942, Gestapo arrested his colleagues post WWII Surrealism had come to play a big role in the arts, gave individual freeing feeling which hadn't been present in Europe so far

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john donne

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Holy Sonnet 10 Death Be Not Proud Metaphysical Poet

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andrew marvell

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To His Coy Mistress The Renaissance

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neoclassical authors

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Gulliver's Travels/Jonathan Swift Robinson Crusoe/Daniel Defoe 1660-1798 emphasis on logic, common sense, properness and adequate performance in society; he writings of this time included a variety of genres, including novels, diaries, essays and satires. Milton's Paradise Lost, Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Samuel Johnson

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metaphysical

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a period of literature concerned with abstract thought (spiritual)

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blank verse

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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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free verse

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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

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slippery slope

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A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented

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red herring

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An argument that distracts the reader by raising issues irrelevant to the case It is like being given too many suspects in a murder mystery

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straw man

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Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack wants everything easier

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process writing

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five stages: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing Writer's Workshop

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formative assessment

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Monitoring progress before and during learning in order to guide any necessary adjustments and the pace of learning. Formative assessment gives the teacher information regarding how well students are understanding a particular concept or skill in order to determine the effectiveness of the instruction. It is done on an ongoing basis during instruction.

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summative assessment

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most often used to determine students' academic achievement in each class or course, often for the purpose of grades student projects, unit and chapter tests, standardized tests

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socratic seminar

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Teacher-led discussion strategy in which the teacher engages students in dialogues by responding to questions with questions, instead of just providing answers. Although it engages higher-order thinking, it can be a time consuming technique

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individualism vs collectivism

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Anthem - Ayn Rand

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sam spade

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He is a veteran detective, telling a story at one point about a case he handled several years earlier when he was with a large agency in Seattle. He is defiant toward the law, but careful about just how defiant he can be without endangering his practice, consulting with his lawyer when necessary to make sure that he is not putting himself in legal jeopardy. And he gives clients and potential clients the impression that he is willing to break the law if he has to in order to attain the results they need. As Spade points out late in the book, he finds it good for his reputation as a detective to project this impression of corruptibility

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haiku

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3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature

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james cooper

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American novelist who is best remembered for his novels of frontier life The Last of the Mohicans 1826

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orthography

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a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols correct spelling

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holistic rubric

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a single scale with all criteria to be included in the evaluation being considered together clarity, organization, and mechanics single score 1-6 based on overall work

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analytical rubric

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Evaluated in parts, rather than a whole designed to provide specific information about each aspect of a task in order to share specific strengths and weaknesses of a student

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functional text

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This is writing or text that is used in everyday life such, as signs, directions, letters, and manuals.

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expository text

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Text written to explain and give information about a topic.

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canto

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division of a long poem

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metaphysical poets

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term coined to Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of English lyric poets of the 17th century, whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by speculation about topics such as love or religion * John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert

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sq3r

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a study method incorporating five steps: survey, question, read, rehearse, review

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anticipation guide

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a lot like a pretest, although there are no right or wrong answers. An anticipation guide provides students with an opportunity to respond to and discuss a serious of open-ended questions or opinion questions that address various themes, vocabulary words, and concepts that will appear in an upcoming text

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homograph

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lead and lead; sound different; mean the same

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homophone

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right and write; sound the same - mean different

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emily dickinson

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19th century female poet; major themes: flowers/gardens, the master poems, morbidity, gospel poems, the undiscovered continent; irregular capitalization, use of dashes & enjambment Wild Nights--Wild Nights! I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died Because I Could Not Stop For Death

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rhetorical features

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1. style 2. tone 3. point of view 4. sarcasm 5. counterpoints 6. praise

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types of discourse

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1. creative 2. expository 3. persuasive 4. argument

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portfolio

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A collection of documents selected for a particular purpose which may contain reflection on the contents of the documents or the related purpose

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walt whitman

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I Hear America Singing Leaves of Grass American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry.

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colloquial

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a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.

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foil character

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A character who is used as a contrast to another character

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pathetic fallacy

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faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects

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trochaic

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Stressed, unstressed

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spondee

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Stressed, stressed

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dactylic

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stressed, unstressed, unstressed

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archetype

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A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response

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anapestic

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Unstressed, unstressed, stressed

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foot

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one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables

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frame story

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A literary device in which a story is enclosed in another story ex: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

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end rhyme

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A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

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heroic couplet

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One of the most common forms of English poetry. It consists of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter which together expresses a complete thought. ex: "Shakespeare's sonnets typically end with a heroic couplet, "So long as men can breath, or eyes can see, si ling lives this, and gives life to thee;" " For sweet things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell worse than weeds."

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slant rhyme

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rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same the words "stress" and "kiss" sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme

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sestina

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a french form of poetry, the most difficult of all closed forms

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shakespearean sonnet

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A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme 3 quatrains and a couplet a 14-lined poem iambic pentameter abab cdcd efef gg

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epigram

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A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement

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correlative conjunction

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both . . . and either . . . or neither . . . nor not . . . but not only . . . but also

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morpheme

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a unit of language that has meaning

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phoneme

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any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language

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gullivers travels

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written in 1726

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brontes

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Romantic writers

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recurssive

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Finding the term next in the sequence

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the raven

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Edgar Allan Poe about a man who is grieving over his wife lenor

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edgar allan poe

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1809-1849 author who was orphaned at young age. Was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre. Failing at suicide, began drinking. Died in Baltimore shortly after being found drunk in a gutter.

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iambic pentameter

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A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable.

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nathaniel hawthorne

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The Scarlet Letter

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transcend

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to go beyond or above; to surpass

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neoclassical

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A revival of the literary, architectural, musical,

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hamlet

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a tragedy by Shakespeare Prince of Denmark

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julius caesar

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Roman dictator who played a big part in the rise of Rome

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othello

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written by William Shakespeare a tragedy about a man who kills himself

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macbeth

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William Shakespeare one of Duncan's generals wants to become King of Scotland murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship

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lyrical poems

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examples include sonnets, short lyrics, elegies, and odes

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