Words containing within themselves antithetical meanings

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…

class 2-11-13

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…

class 2-6-13

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…

class 2-4-13

class 2-4-13

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…

class lecture 1-28-13

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