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This document is a collection of literary terms, such as proverb, revise, rhetoric, satire, second person, soliloquy, sonnet, stanza, summarize, synthesize, thesis statement, and third person. Each term is defined and accompanied by an example taken from a book, likely to be used in an English or Language Arts class.
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EOC Literary Project Proverb A proverb is a saying in general use, giving advice. Example from a Book: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Pr...
EOC Literary Project Proverb A proverb is a saying in general use, giving advice. Example from a Book: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince revise To look over something again and improve it. Example from a Book: “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” Rhetoric speaking/writing that is used to persuade someone. Example from a Book: "But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court." satire A form of speech where you are sarcastic. Example from a Book:Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?" a set of words or forms (such as Second person pronouns or verb forms) that refer to the person that the speaker or writer is addressing You wake up in the morning and you feel the weight of the world. You stretch your arms, feeling the tension of yesterday’s battles still in your muscles. "Bright Shiny Morning" by James Frey soliloquy an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. Example from a Book: Sonnet Example from a Book: Stanza A group of lines of verse forming one of the divisions of a poem or song Example from a Book: Summarize A brief statement of the main points of something Example from a Book: synthesize To combine separate elements to form something new Example from a Book: Thesis statement A thesis statement is a statement of one’s core argument Example from a Book: Third person Example from a Book:
