The Count of Monte Cristo

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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You will be responsible to identify the following
literary elements while reading the novel.
Remember to notate in your books.
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Tips for Understanding the Novel

• Highlight characters names
• Underline character description
• Use sticky notes to identify Themes, Conflicts
  and Parts of the Plot
• Write in the margins of your book!
• Take notes on each chapter!
• READ, READ, READ

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Elements to Notate

• Allusion literary, biblical, mythological
• Conflict internal and external
• Figurative Language imagery, hyperbole, etc.
• Foreshadowing
• Inference
• Irony dramatic, situational, verbal

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Elements to Notate

• Metaphor and Simile
• Narrator
• Personification
• Setting
• Symbols
• Theme

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Romanticism

• 18th-19th century literary movement
• Depiction of emotion and imagination
• Depiction of the beauties of nature has an
  intense interest in its beauty and/or its
  fierceness
• Settings are in exotic or remote locations old
  castles or mansions frequently play an important
  role

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Romanticism Cont.

• Hero or heroine rebels against social norms of
  his/her society
• Interest in irrational realms of dreams, folk
  superstitions, legends, and ghosts
• Language and characters marked by emotional
  intensity