ENGLISH 11

RESOURCES

 AWARD-WINNING NOVELS IN THE CHARLES BEST LIBRARY

Assignment - Focussing on a short story author's style

Tips On Using Quotations In Expository Writing

LITERARY TERMINOLOGY HANDOUTS

NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE (Sparks Notes)
No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today.
Macbeth

SILENT READING VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENT

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Important Websites

Guide to Grammar and Writing

This index includes 427 references  to both the Guide to Grammar and Writing and  Principles of Composition. It does not, however, include references to the interactive Quizzes or to the Grammarlogs (posted responses to ASK GRAMMAR queries). The Frequently Asked Questions page and the Guide's Search Engine will also help you find help on grammatical issues, tips on composition, and advice on English usage.

 

HEAR THIS! FIND AN AUTHOR THAT 'SPEAKS' TO YOU

Grammaphone 

Writers are people with florid imaginations and passionate inner lives. They channel this down into squiggly symbols called words ... and onto thin sheets of crushed tree pulp so that...

You the reader, can scan the paper and blow open your mind and imagination to let in the vast inner world of the writer.

Hearing the words of the author may just be as powerful a form of communication as looking at words.

(Do you think watching a film about a novel is as goos as reading it or listening to the writer's original words?)

In this activity, you will listen to audio excerpts from several terrific writers. The idea is to find an author who "speaks to you". And to find a books by that author for your novel or short story study.

LISTEN TO CLASSIC NOVELS and STORIES; open up another window and read along onscreen or with your paper version from the library.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn   read along

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain  read along  about the author

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll   read along

Don Quixote, Volume 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra    read along

Dorothy and the Wizard by L. Frank Baum    read along

Elephant's Child, The by Rudyard Kipling read along

Emma by Jane Austen   read along

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad   another version read along

Heidi by Johanna Spyri     read along 

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain   read along

The Invisible Man  by H. G. Wells   read along

King Solomon's Mines by H. R. Haggard  read along 

Notes from the Underground by F. Dostoevsky   read along 

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde       read along
   
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan   read along

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett    read along

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens   read along

Treasure Island  by  R. L. Stevenson   read along

The Wind in the Willows  by Kenneth Grahame        read along     
   
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton     read along
   

Short Stories

A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce    read along

Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe    read along

Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe    read along

Children of the Zodiac by Rudyard Kipling   read along

The Diamond Necklace by Guy de Maupassant  read along

Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry    read along

Esme by Saki    read along

Gift of the Magi, The by O. Henry      read along
 

Happy Prince, The by Oscar Wilde    read along

Monkey's Paw, The  by W.W. Jacobs    read along

Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson   read along

Nice people by Henry Cuyler Bunner   read along

Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe   read along 

Telltale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe   read along

Typee  by Herman Melville        read along


ENGLISH 12: TERMS AND DEVICES listed by the BC Ministry of Education 2007

Source: Provincial Exam Specifications

Scroll down for Glossaries of Literary Terms with Examples

BEST ENGLISH DEPARTMENT LITERARY TERMINOLOGY HANDOUTS
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A
active voice
allegory
alliteration
allusion
analogy
antagonist
anti-climax
antithesis
apostrophe
argumentative essay
anecdotal evidence
archaic language
aside
assonance
atmosphere
audience
autobiography
B
ballad
ballad stanza (more)
bias
biography
blank verse
C
cacophony
caricature more
case study
catastrophe (more)
cause and effect
character
characterization
character foil
chorus
chronological order
cliché
climactic order
climax
colloquialism
colloquial language (diction)
comedy
comic relief
compare and contrast
comparison
conflict (more)
connotation
consonance
contrast
couplet
D
denotation
dénouement
descriptive essay
dialect
dialogue (more)
diary
diction
didactic
dilemma
direct presentation
dissonance
drama
dramatic irony
dramatic monologue
dramatic form
dynamic character
E
editorial
elegy
emotional appeal
epic
epiphany
epigram
epitaph
euphemism
euphony
expert testimony
exposition
expository essay (models)
extended metaphor (conceit)
external conflict
F
fable
falling action
fantasy
farce
figurative language (more)
first person point of view
flashback (theatre)
flat character
foil
foreshadowing
form
formal essay
formal language (diction)
free verse
G
genre
graphic text
H
hero
historical reference
hyperbole
I
iambic pentameter
idiom
image
imagery
indeterminate ending
indirect presentation
informal essay (more)
informal language
interior monologue
internal conflict
internal rhyme
irony
J
jargon
juxtaposition
L
legend
limited omniscient point of view
literal language
lyric
M
melodrama
metaphor
metre
metonymy
mood
mystery
myth (more)
N
narrative
narration
narrator
O
objective (language tone etc.)
objective point of view (more)
octave
ode
omniscient point of view
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
P
paradox
parallelism
parody
passive voice
pastoral
pathos
personal essay
personification
persuasive essay (more)
persuasive technique (more)
plot
point of view (more)
pro and con argument (more)
prologue
propaganda
protagonist
proverb
purpose
pun
Q
quatrain
question and answer
R
refrain
repetition (more)
research (essay)
resolution (also)
rhetorical question
rhyme
rhyme scheme
rhythm
rising action
round character
S
sarcasm
satire
sestet
setting (set)
simile
slang
soliloquy
sonnet
speaker
stanza
style
stream of consciousness
statistical evidence
static character
stereotype
stock / stereotyped character
style (more)
stylistic technique (style)
subjective (language tone etc.)
surprise ending
suspense (more)
symbol
symbolism
synecdoche
T
theme
thesis
thesis statement
third person point of view
tone
tragedy
U
understatement
V
voice
W
wit

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RESOURCES:

Glossaries of Literary Terms with Examples

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms
Enormous list of terms from 'ABCEDARIAN POEM' to 'Zeugma'. Each entry has a full definition and links to other words where necessary. Almost fifty different poets have their work on display which is used to highlight some of the poetic terms from the glossary.

A Glossary of Literary Terms
This site has definitions of a number of literary terms. Some entries have titles of examples of works illustrating the terms.


UVIc Writer's Guide, from the University of Victoria
[ Narrative Genres ] [ General Literary Terms ] [ Rhetorical Language ] [ Poetic Tools ]

Gale Glossary of Literary Terms

All American: Glossary of Literary Terms
University of North Carolina at Pembroke

JUXTAPOSITION

The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development. See also antithesis, bathos, foil, mirror passage, and mirror scene.
web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_J.html

What's new in English 10

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March 29, 2007
- Parallelism review
- Review of novel assignment
- Model character sketch on Miss Strangeworth
- Editing of sketches

March 28, 2007
- First journal entry reading on "The Great Compromise" song
- Edited character sketch for Miss Strangeworth

WHAT'S NEW IN MY GRADE 12 CLASS

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March 29
- Parallelism review
- Discussed narrative example essay<>
- Marked in class narrative essay #1
- Assignment on newspaper article and essay dealing with death caused by drugs

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March 28
- In class narrative essay #1
- Practice essay on "Keeping an open mind is important for growth"  is due

WHAT'S NEW IN MY GRADE 9 CLASS

wonderful, wonderful

ENGLISH TEN

WHAT'S NEW IN MY ENGLISH 10 CLASS

ASSIGNMENTS

NOVEL STUDY

GRAMMAR


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RESOURCES

Download a copy of The English Department's Literary Terminology Handout

English 10 List of Grammar Topics

Assignments:

Below is a list of grammar topics that you will study.

After being assigned a topic, go the Grammar site below. Read and print the notes and quizzes. After completing the quizzes, staple the notes to the quizzes and hand them into the teacher at the end of the week.

1. Parts of speech

2. Cracking the sentence code - finding subjects and verbs

3. Fragments

4. Run-ons

5. Solving modifier problems

6. Parallelism

7. Sentence combining

8. Correct verb form

9. Subject-verb agreement

10. Verb tenses

11. Pronouns - correct pronoun usage

12. Pronoun antecedent agreement

13. Commas

14. Semicolons

15. Colons, dashes, parentheses

16. Spelling

17. Sound alikes, look alikes, and spoilers

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GUIDE TO GRAMMAR AND WRITING

This index includes 427 references  to both the Guide to Grammar and Writing and  Principles of Composition. It does not, however, include references to the interactive Quizzes or to the Grammarlogs (posted responses to ASK GRAMMAR queries). The Frequently Asked Questions page and the Guide's Search Engine will also help you find help on grammatical issues, tips on composition, and advice on English usage.

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