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Literature, poetry, authors, and grammar

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show T.S. Eliot  
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Repetition of the same sounds. Example: Peter Piper Picked...?   show
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show W.E.B. DuBois  
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show Frederick Douglass  
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show Toni Morrison  
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An African American poet born in 1938 and a controversial writer?   show
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show Blank Verse  
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show English Ode  
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A figure of speech and non human objects are addressed as if they had human qualities.   show
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show Free Verse  
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show Metaphor  
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Comparing two unlike things with specific words. "My baby sister IS LIKE a doll." or "He is as good AS gold."   show
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show Onomatopoeia  
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Human characteristics are bestowed on anything nonhuman, as in the breathing city or gentle breeze.   show
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show Hyperbole  
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Words that have a different meaning than the actual literal meaning. When a teacher says, "Put a lid on it," in class.   show
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Repetition of same words or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. Example...I need, I need, I need.   show
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Japanese poem of 17 syllables, 3 lines of 5, 7, 5.   show
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Patterning of vowel sounds w/o regard to consonants. The pattern may be successive. Knee-deep, or salt-marsh, or left my necktie. Or like "lake" and "fate", which is_____, but "lake" and "fake" is a full rhyme.   show
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Play on words based on association. A rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by describing the things around it. Example is "All the crowns of Europe" which means all the kings, crowns=kings.   show
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show Denouement  
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show Irish Renaissance  
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His poetry is significant in the development of American literature because he developed his own poetic form and style   show
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Narrative poem that is sung.   show
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show Iambic Pentameter  
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show Key components of brainstorming  
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show Paradise Lost by English poet John Milton  
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What is Grammar structure?   show
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The meaning of individual words, phrases, sentences, or text.   show
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The structure and formation of words   show
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What writers awakened readers to social wrongs?   show
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Individual sounds   show
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show Magical Realism  
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show Red Herring Logical Fallacy  
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show Strawman Logical Fallacy  
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What is a conclusion to an argument as evidence to prove validity?   show
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A Marxist interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" would focus on what?   show
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To be considered a poem, a work of literature must use this   show
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Plays: Tragedies; King Lear...Histories; Richard III, comedies...Twelfth Night...Sonnet 18   show
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show It is by Aurthur Miller and gives an ordinary salesman's life weight and meaning.  
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A type of fiction that makes use of the grotesque, violent, mysterious, and supernatural.   show
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show Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Thorton Wilder  
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show William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley  
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show Anne Bradstreet  
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Wrote "The Color Purple"   show
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show Gary Paulsen  
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show William Golding  
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Beawolf   show
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Wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"   show
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Wrote "The Great Gatsby"   show
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Wrote "Their Eyes Where Watching God"   show
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Wrote "The Joy Luck Club" about Chinese immigrants   show
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Harlem Renaissance writers   show
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show Peer reviews  
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What is an important principle of process writing?   show
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What are the functions of writing portfolios?   show
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What is an effective strategy for assessing student writing?   show
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What is an appropriate peer-review activity?   show
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show Example: Gross...grows  
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What works are written in Old English?   show
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What did Paul Lawrence Dunbar write?   show
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show "Moby Dick"  
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What did Nathaniel Hawthorn write?   show
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Joseph Conrad wrote?   show
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James Fenimore Coooper wrote?   show
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What is an Epigram?   show
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What is an euphemism?   show
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What is semantic feature analysis?   show
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What is reciprocal teaching?   show
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show Contrasts different parts of a statement.  
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show Narrator reporting on all thoughts and actions of all characters. Subject is "he" or "she" and gives characters inner thoughts.  
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show Telling the story from the "I" and "me" perspective. The narrator knows everything about the characters and events and reveals details that even the characters could not reveal.  
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Motif   show
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show 8 line stanza of poetry whose scheme is abababcc.  
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show Contradiction in terms for effect. "wise folly"  
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show Seemingly untrue statement that really is true. "Death be not proud."  
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show A poetic stanza composed of 4 lines. Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnet has 3 quatrains and end with a heroic couplet.  
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show Two part analysis of a poetic line.  
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show Occurs when the final consonant sounds are the same but the vowels are different. Mostly is Irish verse. "green and gone"  
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Soliloquy   show
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show Invented by Sir Edmond Spencer. Each stanza has 9 lines and 8 in iambic pentameter.  
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Sprung Rhythm   show
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Stream of consciousness   show
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show Figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole like "all hands on deck" deck=men  
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Terza Rima   show
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Tone   show
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show Meter in Iambic Pentameter is a characteristic in...  
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show Word choice by author to depict a mood in reader.  
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Personification   show
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Sonnet   show
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Fairy Tales   show
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show Based on real persons who accomplished the feats that are attributed to them, even in exaggeration.  
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Fables   show
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Hamartia   show
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Hubris   show
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Neoclassic period Poets   show
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show Williams Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge  
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Transcendental Romantic period poets   show
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2nd generation romantic poets   show
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show "Exodus" by Leon Uris, "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan, "The Tortilla Flats" by John Steinbeck  
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Naturalism   show
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show Lack of interest  
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show A response to literature that gives middle school students the most problems  
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Standardized reading test   show
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What is a critical response?   show
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show Biological capabilities to articulate sounds understood by other humans...language ability is innate.  
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What is inflectional endings?   show
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show Study of word origins  
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What event triggered the beginning of Modern English?   show
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What 3 Latin words entered the English language during the Elizabethan age?   show
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What are clauses?   show
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show can stand alone or be joined with other clauses  
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show Contains one subject and one verb. Cannot stand alone. 2 types are subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns.  
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8 parts of speech   show
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Syntax   show
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Gerund   show
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Conjunction   show
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show Reading a piece of student writing to assess the overall impression of the product.  
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What is emulating the writing of professionals?   show
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Exposition   show
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show Clustering, listing, and brainstorming  
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show In literature used to evoke feelings of pity or compassion is t create _____.  
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show American Colonial writers  
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Who wrote "A Doll House", a feminist play   show
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Who are Elizabethan writers?   show
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show "Cantebury Tales" by Chaucer  
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What are the levels of grammar?   show
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show Highest level of grammatical element  
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show At least one clause, phrase; each phrase has at least one word, each word is made up of a morpheme, its a level within a level, within a level.  
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Mophemes   show
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Robert Herrick   show
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What did Milton write?   show
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show Eugene O'Neill="Beyond the Horizons", Tennessee Williams="The Glass Menagerie", Thorton Wilder="Our Town"  
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Who are Romantic period authors?   show
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Who is Ann Bradstreet?   show
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What kind of author is Louisa May Alcott?   show
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show 19th Century author and he wrote "Red Badge of Courage"  
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What did Alice Walker write?   show
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show "Beloved"  
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show "Their Eyes Where Watching God"  
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Amy Tan wrote what Immigration novel?   show
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Who are the primary Harlem Renaissance authors?   show
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What is Narration?   show
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What is Confirmation?   show
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show The final part of an argument with strongest solution.  
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show Ethical  
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show Emotional, "Othello Desdemona's death is an example, also in King Lear, Cordelia accepts defeat...  
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show Rational  
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Literary   show
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Second Person, direct address   show
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First Person, narrator   show
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show Indicative used to make factual statements or pose questions. Imperative expresses a request or command, and subject shows a wish, doubt, anything else contrary to the fact.  
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show "The Crucible" paralleled The Cold War  
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When did Children's Lit became established when?   show
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show Latin for the characters or persons in a play  
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Dramatic Monologue?   show
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show Maudllin and self-pitying and egocentrism  
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What is an infinitive?   show
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Compound-Complex sentence   show
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show 2 independent clauses  
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show An independent clause and one or more dependent clauses  
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show Declarative  
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show Period  
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show Declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory  
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show Felt is a linking verb and irregular verb. It connects the subject (Steve) to the predicate.  
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show A compound verb is a combination of an auxiliary verb and another verb. Compound verbs are used to create verb tenses that cannot be made single verbs. Example: The ice cream will melt soon. (will melt is the compound verb).  
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What is a predicate?   show
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What is diction?   show
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What is Syntax?   show
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show Figurative language such as a metaphor or a simile.  
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Rhetorical strategy?   show
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show humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba  
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show Two or more in a sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence  
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Anapestic Meter   show
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show The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.  
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show Tense with the past particle and helping verb WILL HAVE  
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show An adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject of a sentence; includes forms of taste, look, feel, smell, appear, seem, and become, Example; I look TIRED, but I feel FINE.  
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show Points out particular person, place, or things  
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Relative Pronoun   show
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adverb Phrase   show
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intransitive verb   show
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Object Pronoun   show
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Adverbs   show
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Indefinite pronouns   show
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show For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so  
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Present perfect   show
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transitive verb   show
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intensive pronoun   show
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show All, more, other, both, either, few, several, any, most, some.  
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show Noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb; tells who or what receives the action; example: Bobbi loved his PARENTS.  
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show Jean-Paul Satre, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Freidrich Nietzche, Simone de Beauvoir  
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Conjunction   show
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show English Romantic poet; joint publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  
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show The Awakening, The Storm  
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Ernest Hemingway   show
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Ralph Waldo Emerson   show
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Edgar Allan Poe   show
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Emily Bronte   show
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Richard Adams   show
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Ray Bradbury   show
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Nathaniel Hawthorne   show
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show English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries, the five senses and art, and the disappearance of the post and the speaker.  
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show "Because of Winn-Dixie"  
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Sharon Creech   show
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show Epic/novel poem written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number, the number of the prophetic books of Sibyl)  
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Keats   show
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"Beloved"   show
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James Joyce   show
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show "My Antonia"  
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Jean Craighead George   show
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Aphra Behn   show
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show Unchecked ambition as a corrupting force, relationship between cruelty and masculinity, kingship, v. tyranny.  
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show A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.  
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show American poet, novelist, playwright, short stories, columnists, early innovator for literary art known as jazz poetry; best known for work during Harlem Renaissance.  
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show Wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", "Rip Van Winkle", American author, essayist, biographer, historian.  
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show Doctor Faustus  
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