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Sophia: Synecdoche
This video lesson focuses on the literary device synecdoche, using a part to represent the whole idea or object. It defines the term, compares it to metaphor and metonymy, and offers common and literary examples.
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Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: High School Career & Technical Ed.
These video segments examine the integration of domain-specific vocabulary in technical education course, a construction core class. The teacher demonstrates how to introduce the new vocabulary in the first segment via a complex course...
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Sophia: Hyperbaton
The lesson introduces hyperbaton and goes over how hyperbaton is used in writing. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast [2:57] with the lesson's content.
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Sophia: Metonymy
This lesson focuses on the literary device metonymy; it defines it, compares it to a metaphor, and provides everyday examples such as "man of the cloth" for priest, and literary examples such as "lend me your ears."
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Pbs Learning Media: Literary Elements and Techniques: Setting
Explore how authors use setting to establish the time, place, and social conditions in which a story takes place in this short animated video [2:38] from WNET.
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Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Correcting Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices."
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Sophia: Process Papers
This screencast lesson introduces process papers. W.11-12.2b Topic/support/aud
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Sophia: Process Papers: Organization: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses structuring an outline for a process paper. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Process Papers: Organization."