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11th Grade
10/08/2009

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"You shall judge for yourself, my dear colonel,' replied Dr. Heidegger. 'And all of you my respected friends... For my own part, having had much trouble in growing old, i am in no hurry to grow young again"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead"
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Benjamin Franklin
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"There i left that child in the wilderness, and must commit it, and myself also in this wilderness condition, to him who is above all."
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Mary Rowlandson
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"it pleased god before they came half seas over, to smite this youth man with a grievous desease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrwon overboard."
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William Bradford
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"There are times that try men's souls"
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Thomas Paine
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"Tom lost his patience and his piety. 'The devil take me,' said he,' if i have made a farthing! just then there were three lound knocks at the street door... tom youre come for said the black fellow gruffly
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Washington Irving
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Natural men have deserved the fiery pit and are already sentenced to it and god is dreadfully provoked
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Jonathan Edwards
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i saw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me and gongratulated myself upon the timely accident by which i had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more
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Edger allan poe
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I should have, i hoped the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress i made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, i should be happy in viewing a clean book
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Benjamin Franklin
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is it not enough hat we are torn form our country and friends to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice
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Olaudah equiano
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Ah distinctly i remember i was in bleak december and each seperate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor eagerly i wished the morrow vainly i had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow sorrow for the lost lenore
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Edgar allan poe
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I know not what course others may take but give me liberty or give me death
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Patrick henry
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Approch thy grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams
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Williams cullen Bryant
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We hold these truths to be ... etc
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Thomas Jefferson
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the repetition of consonant sounds within words
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Consonance
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rhyme that occcurs at the end of lines of poetry
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End Rhyme
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a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar with
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Allusion
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words or phrases that describe on thing in terms of somting else and that are not meant to be taken literaly
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Figurative language
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an extended point by point comparison of two things that have certain similaries
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analogy
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a fourteen line poem in usually written in iambic pentameter, that contains an octave, which presents a problem or question, and a sestet, which responds to the probelm or question
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italian/petrarchan sonnet
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a line of poetry that contains five feet with one unstressed and one stressed syllable in each foot
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iambic pantameter
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a story or poem in which characters, setting and events stand for other people or events or for abstaract ideas or qualities
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allegory
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the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase
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inversion
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pause or break within a line of poetry
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caesura
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a unit for measuring the meter or rhythm of poetry
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foot
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the pattern of end rhyme within a poem
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rhyme scheme
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figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared without exactly stating the two things in the comparision
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implied metaphor
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rhyme that occurs within lines
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internal rhyme
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a brief story that illustrates a point
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anecdote
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the appearance of two words which, because of their similar spellings, look alike but when pronounced to the sould alike
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Eye rhyme
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the repetition of begining consonant sounds
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alliteration
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mood
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the overall emotion created by a work of literature
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a type of writing that ridicules the short-comings of people or institution in an attempt to bring about a change
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satire
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omonapeta
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the use of a word sounds imitates or suggests its meaning
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tone
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the attiude a writer takes toward the subject of a work
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a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, both of which are stressed used to provide emphasis or a break in the regular rhythm
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Spondie
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Oral tradition
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Passing stories and legends down from generation to generation
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Parallism
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the technigue by which a writer expresses ideals of equal importance in phrases or sentences that are worded in a similar ways
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Scansion
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the analysis of a poem to determine its meter or rhythm
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Theme
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The story's main idea or message that the author wishes to share with the reader
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meter
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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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off rhyme
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words that come close but dont actually ryme
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