Unit III – Voices of Experience
Part 1 – Speaking Out
Part 2 – Facing Limits
Part 1 – Speaking Out
Drama (text 409-410—read & take
notes)
~ Stage Direction
~ Plot
• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
(Resolution)
~ Character
• Main & Minor
• Protagonist &
Antagonist
• Foils
~ Dialogue
• Dialect
~ Metaphor & Extended
Metaphor
~ Biography
~ Theme
~ Description
~ Figurative Language
~Generalization
Part 2 – Facing Limits
Style (text 514-515—read & take
notes)
~ Word Choice & Tone
• Diction
- Formal & Informal
~ Sentence Structure &
Variety
~ Repetition & Parallelism
~ Imagery
More Literary terms used throughout the Part 1:
~ Historical Drama
~ Speech
More Literary terms used throughout the Part 2:
~ Mood
~ Inference
Text Readings:
The Devil & Daniel Webster (412) [DDW]
I Have a Dream (439), Glory & Hope (439) &
The End of Separateness (451) [MLK+]
The United States vs. Susan B. Anthony
(453) [SBA]
Theme for English B (466), The Writer
(466), A Poison Tree (474), Fireworks
Novels:
(475), A narrow Fellow in the Grass (552)
[U3Poetry]
To Build a Fire (517) & from Into Thin
Air (538) [FireAir]
My Wonder Horse/Mi Caballo Mago (557)
[MWH]
NOTES: Students should fill out “Plot Diagram” for each story in composition book. Students
should answer “How Do I Read Poetry” for each poem in composition book. Students may use
composition books on quizzes and Unit tests.