ELA UNIT ONE - THEORY

Unit One – Theory Review  Poetry Forms  Lyric Poetry  reveals deep personal feeling and deals primarily with common human experience  free verse, epigram, ode, sonnet  Song, lyrics, epitaph, elegy, diamante  blank verse, pastoral, idyll, haiku  Narrative Poetry  ballad, epic, allegory

Poetry  Light Verse Poetry  Limerick, parody, epigram, satire  Poetic Terms (figurative language)  allusion, apostrophe, assonance, consonance, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy,  onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, imagery, diction, motif,

Short Story  Elements of the short story  plot, setting, character, theme  Conflict  man vs himself  man vs man  man vs nature  Character  Static or dynamic  Protagonist or antagonist  Point of View  Omniscient, limited omniscient, first person, objective

Short story Plot development

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