World Literature
Week Thirteen Assignment
12/11/2007
1. Read and Respond: Read chapters ten
and eleven. Copy your favorite poem of
at least eight lines from this section.
Write one full page in which you explain what is happening in the poem and
answer one of the questions that follow the poem in the book. (Due Tuesday, January 8).
2. Vocabulary:
1. Aesthetic:
Relating to beauty or the appreciation of beauty; relating to the
branch of philosophy that deals with the nature and expression of beauty, as in
the fine arts.
2. Alchemy:
A medieval chemical philosophy having as its aim the transmutation of
base metals into gold, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity.
3. Anachronism:
One that is out of proper chronological order or position.
4. Anathema: A vehement denunciation or curse.
5.
Bailiwick: A person’s
specific area of interest, skill, or authority.
6. Beleaguered: Beset with troubles or problems;
surrounded with troops, besieged.
7.
Bromide: A commonplace remark
or notion; a tiresome person, a bore.
8. Cappuccino: Espresso coffee mixed or topped
with steamed milk or cream.
9.
Caprice: An impulsive change
of mind; a sudden, unpredictable action, change, or series of actions or
changes.
10. Caribou: Any of several large reindeer
native to northern
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A Reminder: When we return in January, we will
start reading Jane Eyre. Please acquire the book and be ready to
read!