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We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy diction the word choices made by a writer figurative language language employing one or more figures of speech rhetoric the art of presenting ideas in a clear, effective, and persuasive manner rhetorical devices literary Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Aubade A love lyric expressing complaint that dawn means the speaker must part from his lover. Ballad A popular type of narrative poetry. Elegy A lament for the dead. Epic A long narrative poem Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Discussion Director Guides the group and keeps everyone on task. Asks questions throughout the meeting. Word Wizard Picks out unfamiliar words or phrases to discuss with the group. Literary Luminary Finds memorable passages to Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Robert Browning My Last Duchess Robert Browning Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning Childe Roland Elizabeth Barrett Browning Cry of the children Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese Alfred Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shallot Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Children’s Literature The imaginative shaping of life and thought into the forms and structures of language. Examples of Children’s Literature Margery Williams’s The Velveteen Rabbit, A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Alexander “The Great” Took an army of 25,000 soldiers and conquered the 300,000 men Persian army. Conquered most of the world and responsible for the spread of Hellenism. Hellnization The spread of all things Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Immanuel Kant Associated with Transcendentalism Beliefs of Transcendentalism 1. Only truth is in NATURE 2. Bible is DISCARDED 3. Things in nature are EQUAL 4. Man is naturally GOOD 5. INDIVIDUAL is more important Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy diction the word choices made by a writer (diction can be described as: formal, semi-formal, ornate, informal, technical, etc.) figurative language language employing one or more figures of speech (simile, metaphor, imagery, etc.) rhetoric Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Parrington The depression years of the thirties brought forth a good deal of undiluted utopian thinking Topham The partygoers in the Great Gatsby cannot see anything beyond their own enjoyment Armstrong Such a hopeful Read More

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy List the 8 elements of the Modern American Hero 1) courage 2) self-made 3) disillusioned 4) grace under pressure 5) hardworking 6) integrity in question to protect himself 7) search for identity 8) questions Read More