Vocabulary Quiz - "U" Words 1. The brother of your mother or father is your ___ 2. If something or someone is one of a kind we say they are ___ 3. What "U" word’ means "dirty"? 4. If it’s normal or customary‚ then it’s ___ 5. When the top is where the bottom should be then it’s ___ 6. Something that isn’t new but has had previous owners is ___ 7. The subway system or tube in London is known as the ___ 8. The top part of a shoe or things that are higher are ___
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1. Take any sample of 100 words in complete sentences. 2. Count only full sentences. If the last sentence ends short of 100 words‚ stop at that stage. 3. Count the number of words in the sample with 3 or more syllables‚ omitting capitalised words. Call this X 4. Divide by 100 the number of sentences to give an answer Y. 5. Add X + Y to give an answer Z. 6. Multiply Z by 0.3 to give an American grade equivalent. 7. Add 5.0 to your answer to give a British reading
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Though the ocean seems like a very quiet place‚ but if listens carefully‚ one might just hear the sounds of the fish choir. Most of this undersea music comes from soloist fish‚ reiterating the same calls again and again. But when the calls of different fish ………………….co existed ‚ coincide ‚combine‚ mingle with this‚ they form an ensemble. Robert McCauley and his counterparts of Curtin University in Perth‚ Australia‚ discovered seven definite fish choruses‚ occurred mainly at dawn and at dusk ; by recording
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Stevenson uses a range of techniques to make this passage of the novel dramatic and horrifying. This passage is significantly horrifying due to the melodramatic language‚ emotive imagery‚ and an array of language techniques‚ which were extremely common in gothic fiction‚ which was very popular during the 1880’s. This popularity could have been due to the Victorians nature of evasion‚ and how this novel allowed them to venture into the unknown. This passage vividly describes Hyde’s attack on his victim‚ witnessed
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Day 24: Vocabulary Workbook Chapter 3 Due View Act II (00:35:30 – 1:05:00) 30 Mins. HW: List 5 Main Events For Act II (Captions/Summary) Day 25: Review 5 Main Events For Act II (Captions/Summary) Introduce Visual Chain Of Events Project Discuss Accused & Accusers (Via PowerPoint) Begin Review (Question 1-12) HW: Review - Be Sure ALL Act I & II Study Guide Work (?’S‚ Vocabulary P. 4 & 5‚ Characterization P. 12‚ Dramatic Plot Map P. 14) Is Complete *Begin Project
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Reading Response/Analytical Task Explain how the writer‚ Angela Carter‚ has created the gothic in the text and how she has subverted (to do the opposite of) it? How effective is this text? In the story ‘The Lady of the House of Love’ Angela Carter uses gothic elements like using the themes of supernatural‚ a prophecy‚ setting‚ a damsel in distress and tyrannical figure. The theme of supernatural/inexplicable events is very prominent in this story. The protagonist is a vampire who is a creature
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Why do people want to live in a perfect world? Everyone wants to live in their own fantasy world because that is where all their dreams are able to come true. No one wants a world of grief and sorrow. Life should be lived to its fullest. It should not be wasted. It should be embraced. When we are faced with agony‚ we must either make a choice between accepting it or hiding from it. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ the author mainly focuses on Blanche Dubois‚ a woman who
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It was a cold stormy night. The house was still. I was lying in bed when I heard a series of knocks at the door. As I descended the stairs the knocks were getting louder and louder. I thought to myself‚ "Who could be at the door this late at night?" When I opened the door there was a tall man dressed all in black. He smelled of fish and looked like he just walked out of a mud pit. He was having car troubles and needed to use the phone. I invited him in and told him that the phone was down the hall
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Briskly walking through the mysterious darkness of the menacing forest‚ grasping tightly my withering frozen hand‚ my petrified newly wed wife clung on for protection. It was pitch dark on a cold foggy night in the mid days of December. We were in search of somewhere to rest our staggering and lost bodies. My wife and I had been walking for miles through this never ending cursed old forest. Every step we made on the thin and almost transparent layer of snow had a sudden fall and we heard the snap
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The graveyard was dark and shadowed; tulips lined the cobblestone pathway that led to the mausoleum‚ looming darkly against the feeble moon. I strode through the graveyard‚ glancing nervously around at the shadows that lay thick upon the graves like a shroud. Tulips‚ protruding like withered stakes from the ground‚ lined the pathway‚ and I could smell their sickly-sweet odor as I approached the mausoleum‚ looming above me like a forbidding monument to the feeble moon above. “Rachel!” I cried out
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