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The Story of an Hour, The Yellow Wallpaper, A Rose for Emily, and The Lottery

The Story of an Hour, The Yellow Wallpaper, A Rose for Emily, and The Lottery. Vocabulary Instruction. tumultuous. Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. Definition: Characterized by unrest, disorder, or insubordination.

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The Story of an Hour, The Yellow Wallpaper, A Rose for Emily, and The Lottery

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  1. The Story of an Hour, The Yellow Wallpaper, A Rose for Emily, and The Lottery Vocabulary Instruction

  2. tumultuous • Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. • Definition: Characterized by unrest, disorder, or insubordination. • You should steer your boat into a safe harbor before a heavy storm, so the tumultuous waves won't sweep you onto the rocks.

  3. tumultuous • Say tumultuous if I describe something that is characterized by unrest, disorder, or insubordination. • Be prepared to describe why. • Football game • Movie theater • Funeral • Classroom

  4. debase • Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes -- a kind of "debased Romanesque" with delirium tremens -- go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity. • Definition: To make corrupt or impure • Billy Bob debased the organic grass fed beef by feeding his cows corn.

  5. debase Complete the word continuum below. Add a word or phrase to the word line and explain your placement. Debase ----------------------------- Honor

  6. florid • The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of fungus. • Definition: elaborately, or excessively ornamented. • Spending most of the year in the library can give you a colorless, weary face; but after a mountain vacation, you'll be florid with the reddish color that comes from exercise and living well.

  7. florid • What steps would you need to make a florid cake?

  8. interminable • There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all, -- the interminable grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rus. • Definition: Seeming without end, tirelessly long • The interminable droning noise from my mother after I broke curfew last night was enough to drive anyone mad. So, I just walked away. Better that than reacting. We all know what happens when I react.

  9. interminable • Brain storm all the synonyms that mean almost the same thing as interminable.

  10. querulous • I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. • Definition: habitually complaining • Her tone was strangely querulous, and her eyes continually flashed keen, biting glances at me.

  11. querulous • How might a lawyer...prisoner…a baseball player be querulous? Why?

  12. skulk • But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design. • Definition: Sneaky; avoiding responsibility • Not daring to face him, I dogged his footsteps, skulking behind bushes or rocks.

  13. skulk • Why might a cook...musician…a basketball player skulk? Why?

  14. virulent • Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die. • Definition: a poison, disease etc that is virulent is very dangerous and affects people very quickly, or full of hatred for something, or expressing this in a strong way - used to show disapproval: • Pam had a virulent dislike of cats. So much so, she installed an electric fence to keep them out of her yard. When that didn’t work, she resorted to target practice.

  15. virulent • Describe the most virulent situation, person, or character you’ve ever read about or seen.

  16. importunity • She arose at length and opened the door to her sister’s importunities. • Definition: Urging someone to do something • Becky asked for a bite of Jessica’s dessert with importunity, moaning about how hungry she was and how deliciously fudgy the chocolate cake looked.

  17. importunity • Describe how importunity and querulous might be connected or related. Why?

  18. perfunctory • There was the proper swearing-in of Mr. Summers by the postmaster, as the official of the lottery; at one time, some people remembered, there had been a recital of some sort, performed by the official of the lottery, a perfunctory, tuneless chant that had been rattled off duly each year; some people believed that the official of the lottery used to stand just so when he said or sang it, others believed that he was supposed to walk among the people, … • Definition: Hasty, without attention to detail, not thorough; as a formality only. • Your teacher will not be accepting any perfunctory attempts at literary analysis this year.

  19. perfunctory Think of three things that you could be perfunctory. Why?

  20. Literary Terms to Know Be able to define these terms and find examples of them in the stories we are reading. • diction • figurative language • figure of speech • syntax • metaphor • simile • allusion • personification • imagery

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