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Thanatopsis January 31 st. Bellwork January 31 Explain your answers 1.Read this sentence from Paragraph 3. At first, when she is not busy feeling sorry.

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1 Thanatopsis January 31 st

2 Bellwork January 31 Explain your answers 1.Read this sentence from Paragraph 3. At first, when she is not busy feeling sorry for herself, she is tasked with the simplest of duties, selling packets of seeds, which is perfectly fine with Hope, because she does not want to participate in any heavy-duty landscaping jobs. To what does the underlined pronoun in the sentence refer? A she is not busy feeling sorry for herself B she is tasked with the simplest of duties C packets of seeds Dlandscaping jobs 2. Read this sentence from Paragraph 2. This situation is supposedly only short term, and her parents assure her that they wouldn't ask for her help if she wasn't such a dependable daughter. Which revision of the sentence correctly uses the subjunctive mood? FThis situation is supposedly only short term, and her parents assured her that they wouldn't ask for her help if she wasn't such a dependable daughter. GThis situation is supposedly only short term, and her parents assure her that they wouldn't ask for her help if she weren't such a dependable daughter. HThis situation is supposedly only short term, and her parents assure her that they won't ask for her help if she isn't such a dependable daughter. JThis situation was supposedly only short term, and her parents assure her that they wouldn't ask for her help if she wouldn't be such a dependable daughter.

3 Thanatopsis Inversion: reversal or rearranging of the usual order of sentences blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter): Each line has five ("penta") "feet." A poetic foot is a basic rhythmic unit – in this case made up of two syllables. Those feet are generally iambic. Iambic meter is a rhythmic pattern, in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable. It makes the sound da-DUM. The lines do not rhyme.

4 To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides

5 Theme: Romantic poets focused on the beauty of nature and the importance of the individual. With a partner: Write a 30 line poem in blank verse and inverted sentence structure about 1) the beauty of nature or 2) the importance of the individual


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