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Animal Farm by George Orwell

WEBAnimal Farm is the most serious of stories told as a satire about an uprising of farm animals against their human masters. Orwell’s decision to write it as an allegorical fable gives it a …

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Subject-Verb Agreement

WEBSimple Present Tense Verbs. The most basic situation involving subject-verb agreement is a clause with a concrete noun acting as the subject. With a singular subject, use the …

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Sentence Analysis

WEBA method for identifying important sentence elements and analyzing sentence structure. “ Sentence analysis ” is the term I use for a simple system of notation and identification of …

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

WEBSlaughterhouse-Five is based partly on Vonnegut’s own experiences and observations as a soldier in World War II. Captured by the German army, he was in a meat locker …

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

WEBAmong dystopian science fiction novels, Never Let Me Go is unique in its nonconformity to the standard patterns of the genre. It tells its haunting story about the moral hazards of …

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Reading Shakespeare: A Primer

WEBBasic Strategies. Here are a few simple steps that a reader of Shakespeare can take to make the process of reading and interpreting easier. 1. Read a plot summary. …

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Parallelism and Faulty Comparisons

WEBParallelism is a generally recognized principle of good writing: when you write a complex sentence, you should try to make the different parts of the sentence match each other in …

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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

WEBThe Metamorphosis. Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up one morning to a unique problem: He has transformed into a bug. This is a weird one, folks…and that’s …

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“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” Discussion Questions

WEB5. The name Sybil is derived from the term used to refer to a group of female oracles (sibyls) in ancient Greece. Do you think this name has any symbolic or thematic …

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Understanding Verbs II: Action Verbs vs. Linking Verbs

WEBThere are two basic kinds of verbs in the English language: action verbs and linking verbs. The term action verb is self-explanatory; it refers to any verb that tells an action, such as …

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The House on Mango Street

WEB3. “I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much. I write it down and __________ says goodbye sometimes. She does not hold me with both arms. She sets …

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Questions and issues raised in the novel evidence for …

WEBNotes and observations: - the atmosphere of surreality and absurdity established from the beginning is one of the primary characteristics of the novel as a whole. - sense of …

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Slaughterhouse-Five Study Questions

WEBSlaughterhouse-Five Study Questions. 1. What do we learn in the early part of the novel about the events at Dresden? Why is the narrator so driven to write about Dresden? …

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

WEBExcerpt II from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this excerpt, Huck and Jim have just met two men who are on the run from people they have cheated. “Old man,” said the …

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Lord of the Flies Study Questions

WEB4. is the significance (the meaning and importance) of the boys‟ encounter with the wild piglet? 5. What do you think the “sound of the shell” and the conch itself might …

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