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Literary Focus

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Characters' Motives   show
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show Every poem has a distinct speaker or voice who expresses the poem's thoughts and feelings. The speaker will reveal likes, dislikes, and moods as personality traits. The speaker in poetry is not necessarily the author. in Reading "Song of Myself", "I'm Nob  
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show A personal essay contains intimate and detailed descriptions of writer's feelings and experiences. In "My Furthest-Back Person" Alex Haley reveals some of his innermost thoughts. What are some of those?  
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show Time and place make up a story's setting. In "The Third Level" the story shifts between the present and the past. What details tell you so?  
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Internal Conflict   show
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Sensory Language   show
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show Funny incidents or events within one's life told in story format define humorous anecdote. Bill Cosby in "Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man" uses exaggeration, or emphasizing the silliness of something, and contrast, or pointing out what is silly and what is  
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Tribute   show
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Tone   show
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show A common element of poetry is the repetition of the ending sounds in two or more words. Two kinds of rhyme are exact rhyme and half rhyme. Rhymes at the end of a line are called end rhymes. In Fable, Thumbprint"and "If", Rhymes give these poems a musical  
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show If a story has a historical setting, then details about that time play a part in the story. In "Rip Van Winkle". the character dress and behave in ways that relate to the time period in which the American Revolution took place. What details tell the reade  
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show An Object that conveys an idea greater than itself. In "Mother to Son, The Courage That My Mother Had", The Village Blacksmith", have many examples of symbol.  
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