Define that Word!
Impel
To urge or drive by force.
Instill
I want to instill the importance of hard work in my students.
The Ladder to Heaven by unknown
According to the Basotho people of South Africa, Huveane was the creator of the heavens, earth, and life itself. After creating the planet and all of its features and inhabitants, Huveane wanted to get some rest while admiring his work. He went by a river, but it was too loud. He went in the forest, but it was too noisy with birds, insects, and animals. Finally, Huveane got sick of it and drove pegs into the sky. He used these pegs as a ladder and climbed into the heavens, removing each peg as he climbed so that no one could follow him.
Folklore/ Myth
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
In this play Macbeth is a loyal soldier until he meets three witches in the forest. They prophesize that he will become king and that no man born of woman can harm him. Urged along by his wicked wife, Macbeth performs many treacherous acts. He does in fact become king, but is shortly thereafter killed by a person who was removed from his mother's womb by C-section. This play ends in death and sadness.
Drama / Tragedy
Gingerly
Cautious.
Amiss
In a wrong or imperfect way.
Gruesome
The book told the gruesome details of Poe's villain killing another man.
War Bride: The Gloria Rose Story by Donald Morton
The year is 1941 and America has just declared war on Germany. Gloria Rose is a young Australian girl who falls for a dashing American service man named Robert Mallon. Robert was only temporarily stationed in Australia, and when he is called off to duty, Gloria marries him so that they can maintain their relationship. After the war is ends, Robert seeks to bring Gloria back to America as a citizen, but guess what? She's not the only war bride. Tens of thousands of GIs were married to foreigners during World War II and the State Department had to carefully screen each of them. Follow Gloria as she embarks on the journey of a lifetime.
Fiction/ Historical Fiction
What type of Irony is in the passage?
Amy couldn't wait for the Christmas dance. She was so excited that she couldn't concentrate on anything else. The week leading up to it, she drew doodles of herself wearing her dress and a sparkling tiara instead of taking notes. The night before the dance, she noticed that she was getting a small pimple on her nose. It was just a tiny little mark, but she imagined herself with a great big pimple. She worried that she would look like Rudolph the Reindeer in all the photos. She grew gravely concerned. So she ran to the store and bought a tube of every kind of pimple fighting cream available. Then she went home and applied large globs of each of them to her nose. She went to bed that night satisfied that she had done all that she could to fight the blemish. When she woke up, she ran to mirror hoping that the pimple had vanished. As she gazed upon herself in the mirror, she screamed. The pimple had not vanished. Worse still, a bright red rash covered her entire nose.
Situational Irony.
Endeavor
To attempt.
Reverberate
To be repeated like an echo or vibration.
Clad
Clad in a black rubber suit, the diver jumped in the water.
The Dog and the Shadow retold by Aesop
A Dog was crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth when he saw his own shadow in the water. The Dog mistook this shadow for another Dog with a piece of meat twice the size of his own. The Dog let go of his own piece of meat and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get the larger piece from him. And so he lost both pieces of meat: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream carried it away. The moral is that you should not give up what you hold to chase shadows.
Folklore/ Fable
Figurative Language
Like burnt-out torches by a man's sick bed.
Simile
Proprietor
Owner of a store or other business.
Anonymous
Unknown source.
Abrasive
The bus driver's abrasive tone made the excited children settle down.
The Fountain of Youth retold by Juan de León
According to many tales passed down over the ages, there is a fountain that supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters. In this text Juan de León discusses many accounts of the waters of life and theorizes as to the location of such a spring.
Folklore/ Legend
Write the Outline for an Argument Essay.
Answers should NOT vary.
Brusque
Abrupt in manner or speech.
Extricate
To free from a difficult situation.
Grimace
Buy Andy's Insurance by Andy's Insurance Inc.
In this billboard located alongside the interstate, readers and viewers are encouraged to buy their insurance from Andy because, "You get big name protection for a little name price." Andy also prompts readers to "Call now or visit us at andysinsurance.org".
Non-fiction/ Persuasive
Write the outline for a compare and contrast essay.
Answers should NOT vary.
Demean
To cause a lowering of self-esteem.