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Poetry
Walt Whitman
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English
10th Grade
03/07/2011
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artillery
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large guns, either on wheels or standing in a particular place
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Walt Whitman
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poet who wrote about the Civil War based on his personal experiences
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E.E. Cummings
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poet who volunteered and wrote about WW I
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tone
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the attitude the writer takes toward his or her subject; serious, bitter, angry, detached, . . .
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diction
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word choice, such as vocabulary and syntax
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syntax
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the way words are arranged in order to form sentences or phrases
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