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    This document provides definitions and examples of literary terms used for analyzing various forms of writing. It also lists sample readings and selected vocabulary words. Additionally, it examines the construction of personal pronouns and different types of nouns in sentences, as well as the classification of adjectives as attributive or predicate depending on their position.

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    This document provides definitions and examples of literary terms used for analyzing various forms of writing. It also lists sample readings and selected vocabulary words. Additionally, it examines the construction of personal pronouns and different types of nouns in sentences, as well as the classification of adjectives as attributive or predicate depending on their position.

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    This document provides definitions and examples of literary terms used for analyzing various forms of writing. It also lists sample readings and selected vocabulary words. Additionally, it examines the construction of personal pronouns and different types of nouns in sentences, as well as the classification of adjectives as attributive or predicate depending on their position.

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    Dramatic Reading - A public reading or recitation of a work of literature (as a poem or play).
    Characterization - The way a writer reveals the personality of a character by providing a description.
    Folktale - a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
    Speaker - The voice talking to us in a poem.
    Sequence - Order of events in narrative or informative texts.
    Autobiography - The story of an individual's life.
    Haiku - Poetic form unique to Japan.
    Adjectives - Modify nouns and their equivalents.
    Skimming - A reading strategy by reading only the main ideas.
    Tricksters - A person who cheats or deceives people.

    Reading Selection:
    The Author of Life - The God who Dreamed - Max Lucado
    My Poetry - Takamura Kotaro
    Scanning the Heavens - (from Science in Ancient China by George Beshore)
    The Fly - (Vietnamese folk tale, retold by Mai Vo-Dihn)
    On Self-Knowledge - kahlil Gibran

    Selected Vocabularies:
    Lingering - lasting for a long time or slow to end. (Remaining)
    Coincide - occur at or during the same time.
    Bowels - the deep or innermost part. (Literary)
    Infinite - limitless or endless.
    Study the Construction:

    Personal Pronouns
    - refers to a specific person or thing.
    Subjective Case - Subject of the Sentence.
    Objective Case - Object of a verb, preposition, or infinitive phrase.
    Possessive Case - Indicates ownership.

    Nouns
    - words used to name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea.
    A. Subject of the Sentence - What (or who) the sentence is all about.
    B. Direct Object - What (or who) receives the action of the verb.
    C. Indirect Object - To/for what or to/for whom the action of the verb is done.
    D. Object of the Preposition - Preceded by a preposition such as to, for, of, in, on, and from.
    E. Subject Complement - (Predicate nouns) They complement the subject of the sentence.
    F. Object Complement - Refers back to the direct object of the sentence.
    G. Appositive - A noun placed beside another noun or pronoun to rename, identify, or explain it.

    Adjectives: Attributive and Predicate


    - Adjectives may be classified according to their position in the sentence.
    Attributive Adjectives - appear directly beside the word they modify.
    Predicate Adjectives - come after a linking verb. They modify the subject of the sentence

    examples of linking verbs:


    is, are, was, were, verb be.
    Sounds, Tastes, Looks, Feels
    Smells, Seems, Becomes,
    Grows, Keeps, Appears

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