Literary Roots: Literature, Nature, and the Environment

Performing a Close Reading of a Poem


Literary Terms (General Terms)


Diction


Tone


Speaker


Genre


Stanza


Imagery and Figurative Language Devices


Metaphor


Simile


Personification


Allusion


Imagery


Apostrophe


Paradox


Hyperbole


Allusion


Irony


Symbol


Sound Devices


Alliteration


Assonance


Consonance


Onomatopoeia


Repetition


Anaphora


Types of Rhyme


Planning


Annotating a Poem


Preliminary Thesis Statement


Outline


Drafting


Drafting the Thesis Statement


Drafting the Introduction


Drafting the Body Paragraphs


Drafting the Conclusion


Literary Style


Literary Present


Consistent Point of View


Clarity and Conciseness


Sentence Fluency


Revising


Revising for Organization


Revising for Development


Revising for Coherence and Unity


Revising for Style


Editing and Proofreading


Major Grammar Errors


Major Punctuation Errors


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