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Sophia: Identifying Character Types
This video lesson focuses on character types including the following: flat, damsel in distress, fugitive, rebel, womanizer, country bumpkin/city slicker, social climber, traitor, siren, man sinned against, and guilt-ridden forgiveness...
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Sophia: Identifying Motifs
This video lesson focuses on identifying motifs in works of fiction. It defines the term and discusses tracking recurring patterns throughout the work to identify motifs. Then it uses "Alice in Wonderland" as an example with motifs like...
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Sophia: Identifying Plot Devices
A video lesson defining plot devices and explaining how to identify them in fiction reading selections. [10:28]
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Sophia: Identifying Tone
This lesson focuses on how to identify the tone of a passage. It defines tone, explains how to identify positive, negative, and neutral tones, and demonstrates how to identify tone with both a literary and a non-fiction example. [5:14]
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Sophia: Imagery
Notes introducing and providing examples of literal and figurative imagery. Notes can be both read and listened to.
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Sophia: Litotes
This video lesson focuses on the rhetorical device, litotes, or understating for emphasis. It defines the term and offers several examples from life and literature. Real Player is required.
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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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Sophia: Mla Bibliography: Book Sources
A screencast lesson explaining how to create a bibliography for book sources using MLA formatting. [2:04]
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Sophia: Motif
Notes introducing and providing examples of motif. A chart also helps students understand the difference between motif, symbol, and theme. Examples are provided from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Ethan Frome by...
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Sophia: Note Taking: Cornell Notes
A screencast lesson explaining how to use the Cornell Note Taking Strategy when taking notes for a research project. [5:25]
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Sophia: Paradox
Notes introducing a paradox and providing examples of a paradoxical statement and a paradoxical situation from "The Duchess and the Jeweler" by Virginia Woolf and "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Notes can be both read and...
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Sophia: Participles and Participial Phrases
This lesson focuses on participles and participial phrases; it defines each and provides examples. It also offers tips for finding participles in sentences and provides sample sentences with explanations. [6:38]
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Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
A screencast lesson defining active and passive voice, demonstrating how to construct a sentence in passive voice, and explaining when using passive voice is appropriate. [16:14]
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Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
An animated video lesson followed by notes and additional examples demonstrating how to write in the passive voice and when it would be appropriate to do so. [5:09]
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Sophia: Periods
This screencast focuses on the purpose and uses of the period in sentences, numbers, and abbreviation. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Personal Branding
In this tutorial video, the instructor explains how new graduates can create personal brands to enable them to gain attention from potential employers. A slide show also accompanies the video to reinforce the video's key points regarding...
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Sophia: Personal Branding
In this tutorial video, the instructor explains how new graduates can create personal brands to enable them to gain attention from potential employers. A slide show also accompanies the video to reinforce the video's key points regarding...
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Sophia: Picking a Research Topic
This tutorial focuses on picking a research topic by brainstorming and freewriting about what interests you or what you want to learn more about and doing background reading to see what information is available for your possible topics....
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Sophia: Plagiarism
A screencast lesson discussing different types of plagiarism and examining the issue including consequences and solutions. [3:20]
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Sophia: Prewriting
A video lesson defining the prewriting step in the writing process and explaining why it is an important step. [6:08]
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Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations
This video lesson explains how to use single quotation marks around quotations within quotations or titles within quotations. Real Player is required.
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Sophia: Realistic Fiction: It Could Happen to You
A screencast lesson defining the genre, describing the key elements, and providing examples of realistic fiction. [3:38]
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Sophia: Semicolons
A screencast lesson introducing the semicolon and explaining its usage. Several examples are provided. [2:04]
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Sophia: Semicolons and Series
This video lesson explains the rules for using a semicolon in series and in sentences with coordinating conjunctions with examples. Real Player is required.