Coming up: Vocabulary quiz on Wednesday, November 8; handed out yesterday / another copy below.
Your Hamlet projects are due tomorrow. Are you ready?
In class: Please continue to work independently on your "My Last Duchess" graphic organizers. I will be collecting them at the beginning of class on Monday. These will be your first writing grade of marking quarter 2.
“My Last
Duchess” by Robert Browning vocabulary.
Quiz on Wednesday, November 8
1. countenance (noun)- a person’s face or
facial expression
2. mantle (noun)- a loose sleeveless cloak or
shawl, worn especially by women.
3. bough (noun)- a main branch of a tree.
4. trifling (noun or adjective)- unimportant
or trivial.
5. officious (adjective)- assertive of
authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or
trivial matters.
6. munificence (noun)- the quality or action
of being lavishly generous; great generosity.
7. dowry (noun)- the money, goods, or estate
that a woman brings to her husband in marriage
8. to avow (verb)- to declare or state
(something) in an open and public way
9. dramatic monologue- (noun) -a literary work
(as a poem) in which a speaker's character is revealed in a monologue usually
addressed to a second person
10. earnest-(adjective)- a serious and
intent mental state
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