Slide 1 Slide 2 Meet the Writer Slide 3 Born in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1920, Ray Bradbury began writing when he was twelve. Bradbury sees himself as a magic realist and a…

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Slide 17th grade Poetry Unit Slide 2 Poetry  A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination…

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Slide 1 English 2 PreAP Poetry Unit Slide 2 Objectives: The students will be able to…. …appreciate poetry as a genre …recognize and explain the significance of poetic…

Slide 1 Slide 2  Alliteration – the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together › Ex: “But the sea, the sea in darkness calls.”…

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