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English language and literature

Here English is studied as a first language, with literary terms, writing conventions and set texts. Lumi asks the terms and benchmarks back, while the writing itself is built by practice.

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Make one note per literary term, device, set text and writing convention. Lumi quizzes definitions such as simile, metaphor, protagonist or thesis, along with the authors, dates and quotations of the texts you study. The typical trap is knowing a term without being able to spot it in a passage. For each term, find an example in your own text. Lumi helps you keep the vocabulary and references in mind.

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English language and literature · teach this card to Lumi

A metaphor says one thing is another, while a simile uses like or as. The protagonist is the main character of a story. The thesis statement of an essay states the main argument, usually at the end of the introduction. An iambic pentameter line has ten syllables in five unstressed and stressed pairs.

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A metaphor says one thing is another, while a _____ uses like or as.

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