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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Author's Purpose and Tone

For Students 9th Standards
React to chapter thirty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore the author's purpose and tone.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Tone

For Students 9th Standards
Read chapter eleven from A Lesson Before Dying independently and examine the development of tone.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Humor and Sarcasm

For Students 9th Standards
Annotate page 56 from A Lesson Before Dying focusing on details that develop humor and/or sarcasm to deepen our understanding of the tone of the chapter.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: A Lesson Before Dying: Tone

For Students 9th Standards
React to chapter twenty from A Lesson Before Dying to explore how the events affect Grant and how they contribute to the tone of the text.
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Brigham Young University

Silva Rhetoricae: Consonance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a very detailed definition of the term but does not give any examples. Part of a larger site of literary terms.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Anaphora

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Anaphora" including the definition, examples, and a link to more information.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Anastrophe

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Anastrophe" including the definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Caesura

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Caesura" including a definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Circumlocution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term Circumlocution meaning "a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking."
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Connotation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Connotation" including the definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Diction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Diction" including a definition, an example, and a link to more examples.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Foil

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Foil" including definition and examples.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Hyperbaton

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the figure of speech "Hyperbaton" including definitions from two sources.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Imagery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry that defines the term "Imagery."
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Juxtaposition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Juxtaposition" including multiple definitions.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Metonymy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Metonymy" including a definition, an example, and a link to Wikipedia.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Periphrasis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Periphrasis" including a definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Polysyndeton

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Polysyndeton" including a definition and literary examples.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Setting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Setting," the time and place a story takes place.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Synecdoche

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Synecdoche" including a definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Syntax

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Syntax" including definitions and background for the term.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Theme" including a definition and an example.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Verisimilitude

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Verisimilitude" including the definition and examples.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Euphony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a glossary entry for the term "Euphony" including a definition and an example.