Reading Due Tuesday, 10/30

Read the story "The Devil and Tom Walker" and write down at least one quotation (abbreviated) for each of the following focus areas:

1. The characterization of Tom 2. his wife and 3. the Devil
4. Theme(s) of the story
5. Setting/Role of Nature in the story
6. Role of the Narrator/narrative voice in the story
7. Similarities to previous literary movements
8. Differences to previous literary movements

This assignment will be collected as a "practice" assignment.

Info from Friday, 10/19

You are writing a paper with the following thesis:


Colonial authors used a variety of literary devices to persuade their audience to separate from the English. (The POA for this paper will be the authors’ names OR the names of the document.)

The authors you are writing on will be: Henry, Jefferson, and Paine.

You must create a chart that lists three examples of literary devices that each author uses to persuade his audience. The first column will be the author's name. The second will be the 3 quotations for each author that shows them using a literary device. The third column will explain the effect that specific example is having on the reader, and how it persuades them.

The chart will be "due" on Monday. Your first body paragraph must be done by Tuesday, and brought to class for editing.

Sample chart.


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Content Test Thursday

Approximately 60 Multiple Choice Questions

(A few of these we will discuss this week, so don't panic if you haven't read it yet.)

Make sure you know:

Literary Devices:

Aphorism
Personification
Periodic Structure
Allusion
Metaphor
Parallel Structure
Metaphysical Conceit
Epanorthosis
Rhetorical Questions
Rhetorical Appeals

Title of Passages we’ve read

General History or Virginia
Of Plymouth Plantation
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Wonders of the Invisible World
Huswifery
On a Wasp
Dialogue…Gout
Autobiography
Poor Richard’s Almanac
Speech in the Virginia Convention
Declaration of Independence
The Crisis
To his Excellency, General Washington

Types of Questions

 Authors of Passages we’ve read

 General time period and purpose of passages we’ve read

 You will need to be able to identify excerpts from the passages we’ve read.