Estancia High School – Comp/Lit II 10th Grade Literary Terms to Know CA 9/10 Content Standards: Reading/Literary Response and Analysis 3.3 – students apply their understanding of content-area terminology during narrative analyses of grade-level literary texts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This sheet includes the most common literary terms used to support the discussion of literature at the sophomore level
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INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES In computing‚ input/output‚ or I/O‚ refers to the communication between an information processing system (such as a computer)‚ and the outside world possibly a human‚ or another information processing system. Inputs are the signals or data received by the system‚ and outputs are the signals or data sent from it. The term can also be used as part of an action; to "perform I/O" is to perform an input or output operation. I/O devices are used by a person (or other system) to
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Rhetorical Strategies and Stylistic Devices Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Ex. “GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE‚ COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN‚ AND WISDOM ALWAYS TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.” (Slaughter House-Five‚60) Allusion- a brief and indirect reference to a person‚ place‚ thing or idea of historical‚ cultural‚ literary or political significance. Ex. “Canst thou draw
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DEFINITION OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM A type of cultural criticism‚ postcolonial criticism usually involves the analysis of literary texts produced in countries and cultures that have come under the control of European colonial powers at some point in their history. Alternatively‚ it can refer to the analysis of texts written about colonized places by writers hailing from the colonizing culture. In Orientalism (1978)‚ Edward Said‚ a pioneer of postcolonial criticism and studies‚ focused on the way
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When you read a book‚ or a passage from any website do you ever think‚ “What rhetorical devices does the author use? And why? “ Well I Don’t think what rhetorical devices the author uses because why would you? The only time I would think what rhetorical devices the author is using is when I’m assigned to do it‚ like this project. “The design of rhetoric is to remove those opinions that lie in the way of truth‚ to reduce the passions to the government of reasons; to place our subject in a right light
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“The only crime is pride” is a true statement. Multitudes of people take much pride in numerous things some being: their job‚ family‚ political views‚ hometowns even in their favorite sports team. In the play Antigone by Sophocles‚ the protagonist‚ Antigone‚ wants to give her brother Polynecies the same honorable burial given to her other brother Eteocles. Creon‚ The ruler of Thebes‚ makes it very obvious to all the citizens that they are not to attempt to bury his nephew or they will be stoned to
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“Kids‚ back in my days‚ we didn’t have those fancy teleportation devices; getting to places was a transportation problem. I remember very well those times. Cars now had a modern system of using infrared radiation as energy fuel‚ therefore many began to buy automobiles since the pollution problem was disappearing. Still‚ the traffic jams were constant and a solution was being researched. This way‚ public transportation became the axis of travel of the modern man. Nevertheless‚ as living and health
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Future of Mobile Devices In just a few short years Mobile Devices have come a long way. From the early days of pagers and car phones the size of bricks‚ to today with smart phones that do everything from make phone calls to text and web surfing‚ and hand held tablets and computers that allow us to do just about anything we need to do electronically.. Literally everyday something new comes out that is smarter‚ faster and better than the device before it. The future of mobile devices is limitless
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BABY SHOWER IDEAS Sweet‚ Sweet Baby Give the guests a list of pregnancy- or parenting-related descriptions and ask them to match those descriptions to the most fitting candy name. Use the examples from the list below or come up with your own: Twins = M&Ms Triplets = 3 Musketeers Contractions = Whoppers Epidural = Lifesavers Hospital bill = Payday Breastfeeding = Milky Way College costs = 100 Grand Girl’s name = Baby Ruth Boys’ names = Mike & Ike Mom’s tummy after pregnancy = Jelly
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in the tough and competitive market make it possible for many businesses and companies to reach their employees‚ other partner markets or businesses and even their customers while on the move. This is the gift of wireless devices and applications technology. Wireless devices and applications (WDA) are used by many organizations in their various operations because it has many benefits. First‚ it is cost effective- the amount that a company would spend in order to disseminate information and connect
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