Examples: “Apparent” can mean “obvious” or “seeming, but in fact not”. “Awful” can mean “worthy of awe” or “very bad”. “Back” can mean “regressive” as in “to go back in time”, or it can mean “progressive” as in “to push back a deadline”. “Citation” can mean “commendation” or a “summons to appear in court”. “To…

Agenda: Quiz Plot Review Assignment 1 Literary Terms Discussion of play: gender, race, spectacle Quiz 2 1.  What body part does Titus give up to save his sons’ lives? 2.  Titus does not get his sons returned to him.  What does he get instead? 3.  Name a method Lavinia uses to communicate what happened in…

Quiz 1 1.  Name a way that Lavinia is violated/hurt by Demetrius and Chiron. 2.  Name a distinct, second way that she is violated/hurt. 3.  Who kills Bassanius? 4.  In what place do Titus’ sons Martius and Quintus end up dead with Bassanius? 5.  In what more wholesome activity are all these characters supposed to…

Improved writing by learning more flexible and complex syntax Improved writing by learning figures of speech Larger and more flexible vocabulary More careful and sharper reading of texts Development of creative imagination and problems solving More perceptive awareness of the characters of others More perceptive awareness of one’s own self-representations   First line of Ovid’s…

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