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"We don't ask a flower to give us any special reasons for its existence. We look at it and we are able to accept it as being something different, and different from ourselves."
--Gwendolyn Brooks (poet)
Substitute the word "person" for "flower." What deeper issue do you think Gwendolyn Brooks is talking about?
Lit Term
A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles. There are several kinds of metaphor:
1. A directly stated metaphor states the comparison explicitly: "Fame is a bee" (Emily Dickinson).
Vocab Word
affable (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
SYNONYMS: genial, amicable, agreeable, cordial
ANTONYMS: surly, cantankerous, dour, inhospitable
Grammar/Punctuation
The Adverb Clause
An adverb clause is a subordinate clause that modifies a verb, an adjective, or an adverb. An adverb clause tells how, when where, why, to what extent, or under what condition. An adverb clause is introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
Ex. William Cullen Bryant wrote the first version of "Thanatopsis" when he was a teenager.
Ex. Thomas can explain naturalism to you better than I can.
Homework
Read "from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" pp 399-403.
Answer questions 1-7 on p 404.
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