Figurative Language
Class Readings
Research
Literary Periods
Class Procedures
100
Compares two things WITHOUT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
A play in which McCarthyism is criticized.
What is The Crucible?
100
This format is commonly used when writing English Research papers.
What is MLA format?
100
Writers from this time period, including Jonathan Edwards, William Bradford, and Anne Bradstreet, share religious enlightenment and provide a history of the time.
Who are Puritan writers?
100
If you are standing when the bell rings...
What is being the last one out?
200
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement of the truth.
What is a hyperbole?
200
Jonathan Edwards gave this sermon to his congregation in Enfield, Connecticut. It supposedly was six hours.
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
200
You must always do this for your sources when writing.
What is cite your sources?
200
Works of this period included political statements, pamphlets, letters, and the like. Major writers during this time period, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Franklin, were concerned with government and society.
What is The Age of Reason (rationalism)?
200
You are given five days to complete an assignment if you were absent, but only if it is...
What is excused?
300
Miss Mary Mac
What is alliteration?
300
This little robot's adventure ended in New Jersey.
What is the Hitchhiking Robot?
300
First hand accounts of events, facts, or research.
What is primary sources?
300
Before the arrival of colonist in America, there were already people here. Their stories often told the origins of something.
What is Native American Myths?
300
Quickwrites, notes, and closings go...
What is your binder?
400
"Boom!" "Zap!" "Buzz!"
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A speech given by Patrick Henry urging the colonies to fight against the British King.
What is Speech in the Virginia Convention?
400
The use of another's words or ideas, whether intentional or unintentional, and claiming them as your own.
What is plagiarism?
400
This time period was a religious revival.
What is The Great Awakening?
400
If you are in class and do not do your assignment, you will receive...
What is a 0?
500
"Let everyone fly out of Sodom."
What is allusion?
500
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..."
What is The Declaration of Independence?
500
This usually appears at the end of your first paragraph in a research paper, and should cover only what you will discuss in your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
500
This period of American literature reflects a sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American dream.
What is Modernism?
500
All work should have your name, date, block, and...
What is the assignment name?
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