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Repetition Chart Nonfiction works like the Gettysburg Address
often contain literary devices. Speeches, especially, use repetition of
words, sounds, and structures. The use of repetition helps emphasize
the writer’s ideas and fixes those ideas in listeners’ minds. Fill out the
following repetition chart with details from the Gettysburg Address.
Repetition of Sounds
Repetition of Words
Repetition of Structures
Graphic Organizer
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“My best friend is a white girl
named Denise.”
“‘You’re trying to start a war,’ she
said.”
“We felt fortunate to be assigned a
room at the end of the barracks . . .”
“I remembered the wire fence
encircling us, and a knot of anger
tightened in my breast.”
Theme
Theme
It’s unfair to distrust someone
because of his or her heritage.
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person is more than the accident of ancestry.”
or distrusted because of her heritage. The message could be stated: “The true
Sample response: Both pieces of writing are about a person who is despised
General Statement or Conclusion:
You shouldn’t judge people according to where they were born or
their ancestors.
“I didn’t know what to say.”
“I have always felt funny using
chopsticks.”
“Dandelion, dandelion,/Despised
and uprooted by all . . .”
“ . . . some people had little faith in
the ideas and ideals of democracy.”
“My father says where we’re going
they won’t grow.”
Important Details from
“In Response to Executive Order 9066”
“We tried to sleep to escape from
the restless anxiety . . .”
Important Details from
“Camp Harmony”
Sample entries appear below.
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“far above our poor
power”
“that field as a final
resting place”
“fathers brought forth”
Repetition of Sounds
“living and dead”;
“honored dead”;
“that these dead”
“so conceived and so
dedicated”; ”We have
come to dedicate”;
“It is rather for us to
be here dedicated”
“a new nation”;
”testing whether that
nation or any nation”;
”that this nation”
Repetition of Words
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“that government of
the people, by the
people, for the
people . . .”
“It is for us the living
. . . It is rather for us to
be here”
“we cannot dedicate—
we cannot consecrate—
we cannot hallow—
this ground”
Repetition of Structures
Repetition Chart Nonfiction works like the Gettysburg Address
often contain literary devices. Speeches, especially, use repetition of
words, sounds, and structures. The use of repetition helps emphasize
the writer’s ideas and fixes those ideas in listeners’ minds. Fill out the
following repetition chart with details from the Gettysburg Address.
Interact with a Literary Text
The Gettysburg Address
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Fill in the following chart with important details from “Camp
Harmony” and “In Response to Executive Order 9066.” Then, write
the theme of each piece in the last cell of each column. Finally,
write a general statement about the similarities and differences
in the themes.
Side-by-Side Chart The details in a literary selection work
together to create a theme, or message about life. Different writers
may explore the same theme but use different topics and details to
convey that theme. Writers might also explore the same topic but
convey very different themes.
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Camp Harmony;
In Response to Executive
Order 9066
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