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[[Rhetorical Analysis]]
[[Rhetorical Analysis]]
[[Category:Literature]]
[[Category:Literature]]
See also [[Literary devices]]




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Literature
 
== Types ==
 
== Types of literature ==
=== inscriptions ===  
=== inscriptions ===  
=== pamphlets ===  
=== pamphlets ===  
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== American high school literature ==
== American high school literature ==
Discussed the American Canon:


General works taught in American high schools:


General works taught in American high schools:
* Hamlet / Julius Caesar
* Hamlet / Julius Caesar


* Animal Farm or 1984
* Gatsby
* Gatsby



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Literature English Skills Rhetorical Analysis

See also Literary devices


Literature definition

  • by definition, anything in writing
  • more particularly, literature refers to writing of artistic merit or value



Types of literature

inscriptions

pamphlets

poetry

prose

Ancient texts

Biblical

Chinese

Greek

English literature

Old English

Middle English

American literature

  • "Moby Dick” by Melville
  • "Huck Finn” by Twain
  • Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald

American high school literature

General works taught in American high schools:

  • Hamlet / Julius Caesar
  • Animal Farm or 1984
  • Gatsby
  • Lord of the Flies
  • F451
  • Things Fall Apart
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • The Crucible
  • Beloved
  • House on Mango Street


Modern literature

Magical Realism

International literature (modern periods)

French

Spanish

Russian