British Literature
Grade level: 11-12
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Beowulf |
Epic hero; epic; images; character; tone; theme; setting; alliteration; kenning |
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Songs of Ancient Heroes Unit |
Elegy; elegiac tone; metaphor |
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The Gift of Story |
Refrain; ballad; incremental repetition; vernacular; iambic pentameter; character; frame story; satire; imagery; personification; symbol; irony; couplet; half rhyme; romance; tone; allegory; quest; romance hero; comparative essay writing |
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Love, Death and Time |
Speaker; image; poetic meter; paradox; speaker; image; sonnet; conceit; octave; sestet; quatrain; allegory; Spenserian stanza; metaphor; personification; couplet; carpe diem; pastoral; hyperbole; understatement; metaphysical poetry; simile; paradox; epigram; irony; epitaph; refrain; parody |
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Hamlet Unit |
Shakespearean history; setting; aside; dramatic monologue; pun; character; plot; theme; introduction; rising action; climax; falling action; denouement; public speaking; visual organization |
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The Power of the Word |
Parallel structure; paradox; imagery; foreshadow; symbol; psalm; metaphor; parable; irony; repetition; elegy; blank verse; purpose; dramatic irony; epic simile; iamb; allegory; Biblical context study |
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The Sting of Satire |
Tone; irony (verbal, situational, dramatic); satire; allegory; parody; symbol; characterization; exaggeration; hyperbole; understatement; sarcasm; author's purpose; diction; tall tale; stance; pastoral; antithesis; heroic couplet; iambic pentameter; triplet; closed couplet; epigram; rhyme; assonance; alliteration; allusion; mock epic; cantos; epic simile; wit; parody; persuasion styles; persuasive writing; voice; purpose |
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The Power of the Imagination |
Dialect; speaker; tone; alliteration; image; narrator; moral lesson; theme; parallelism; poetic structure; blank verse; iambic pentameter; figures of speech; epigraph; paradox; mood; personification; romantic lyrics; sonnet; ode; apostrophe; meditative poem; speaker; rhyme scheme; meter; ballad; internal rhyme; narrator; assonance; ballad stanza |
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The Quest for Beauty |
Anapestic rhythm; simile; personification; image; meter; couplet; ottava rima; satire; irony; tone; Spenserian stanza; apostrophe; terza rima; sonnet; onomatopoeia; alliteration; analogue; parody; theme; sonnet; speakers; voice |
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Research Writing |
Topic selection; acquisition of materials and resources; determining viable sources (primary and secondary resources); organization; thesis creation; take relevant notes; solid interpretation of sources; correct formatting; grammatically and stylistically correct writing |
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Dickens Unit |
Characters;
setting; vocabulary; theme; plot; analysis; conflict; resolution |
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Love and Loss |
Tone; tercet; simile; symbol; meter; rhyme; alliteration; assonance; plot; climax; rhyme scheme; image; contrasting images; foreshadowing; contrast; setting; character; extended metaphor; dramatic monologue; motive; rhyme; Petrarchan sonnet; rhythm; sonnet; metaphor; assonance; antithesis |
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Jane Eyre |
Foreshowing; dark imagery; characters; setting; plot; mood; atmosphere; narrator |
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The Paradox of Progress |
Mood; atmosphere; setting; image; figures speech; contrasting imagery; simile; metaphor; foreshadow; speakers; irony; theme; diction; anticlimax; narrator; situational irony; repetition; literary ballads; message; style parallelism |
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Frankenstein |
Mood; atmosphere; setting; imagery; foreshadowing; characters; setting; plot; point of view |
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Contemporary Literature |
Sound effects; image; symbol; mood; elegy; epiphany; point of view; tone; irony; stream of consciousness; symbol; character; setting; sensory images; flashback; omniscient narrator; dramatic irony; lyric; pun; villanelle; free verse |