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Dramatic Arguments
This video discusses the use of dramatic dialogue in a literary piece by analyzing it for a claim, soundness of reasoning, and relevancy.
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Conflict: A Guilty Conscience
Conflict: A Guilty Conscience demonstrates understanding of conflict by describing a type of conflict that occurs in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
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Making Inferences 2
“Making Inferences” explains how to make inferences from given information by using examples from American literature.
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Character Traits in Drama
Character Traits in Drama explains the importance of character traits in a drama by exploring physical appearance, behavior, and interactions with others.
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A Matter of Character
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes differences between simplified and traditional Chinese characters and the politics associated with both.
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Bob Grows a Garden: Conflict
Bob Grows a Garden: Conflict describes the challenge that a character faces in a story, called the problem or conflict, as well as the resolution, or how the problem is resolved.
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The Clubhouse: Characters
The Clubhouse: Characters discusses the characters in a fictional story and explains both main and minor characters.
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Exploring Themes in The Scarlet Letter
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a dark novel set in Puritan Massachusetts. It explores themes of sin, guilt, and the corrupting influence of society on individuals. Through the characters of Hester Prynne, Reverend Arthur...
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Questioning Motivations
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how, just as a skillful novelist sheds light on the motivations of her protagonists, a questioning of the motivations of those in central positions of authority will help us better...
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Character Development
UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes a range of aspects associated with Taiwan and China's very different approaches towards traditional or simplified characters.
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How to say "One does not simply..." in Spanish (Día 113)
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Conflict and Plot
“Conflict and Plot” will help students to review the value of conflict within a storyline by examining both types of conflict: internal and external.
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Theme
“Theme” will help students evaluate the concepts of theme and main idea within a piece of literature.
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Types of Characterization
“Types of Characterization” will help the student to review the different types of characterization, particularly direct and indirect characterization
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Antagonist and Protagonist
Antagonist and Protagonist defines and provides examples of an antagonist and a protagonist.
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Exploring Setting
Exploring Setting explores the concept of setting in a literary work by identifying the setting and explaining the effect(s) the setting has on the main character.
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I Recall: Part 2
“I Recall: Part 2” reviews characters, setting, and events and asks questions about these story elements after reading the story “The Clubhouse.”
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I Recall: Part 1
“I Recall: Part 1” discusses characters, setting, and events and applies these story elements to answering questions about the fiction story “Learning to Fly.”
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Comprehension Story Elements: Retelling
This video teaches how to retell a story. It shares how to first tell the setting/characters, then the problem, and finally the solution. It teaches how using three finger retell (beginning, middle, and end) helps keep us on track....
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Comprehension Story Elements: CHARACTERS & TRAITS
This video teaches what a character is and how to identify outside and inside character traits. It teaches how the author shows who the character is based on what the character DOES and SAYS. Knowing the characters helps us understand...
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Societal Neuromania
Legal scholars Nita Farahany (Duke) discusses the current societal preoccupation with neuroscience.
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Stereotypes of Mental Illness
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks describes the many false stereotypes of mental illness that still pervade the public consciousness, explaining that there are many more accomplished people than we thought who suffer from various...
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What Is Narrative Writing?
“What Is Narrative Writing?” describes the genre of narrative writing.