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Back to School: Style Analysis

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Jump back into expository writing and analysis at the start of a new school year! Start with a review of an authors' stylistic choices in diction, syntax, treatment of subject matter, and figurative language. Writers choose a text to analyze in a complete essay. Contemporary Literary Criticism is mentioned in the second step as a resource, but it is not included.

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author's style, authors, rhetorical devices, rhetoric, syntax, sentence structure, literary analysis, writing articles

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analytical writing, author's style, diction, Expository Writing, figurative language, literary analysis, rhetorical devices, syntax, article writing, english language arts
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Inquiry-Based Learning
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