WUP for Wednesday, 3/12

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)

Explain why you need to be friends with yourself before you can be friends with someone else.

Lit Term

Parody: A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style. Parodies often achieve their effects by humorously exaggerating certain features in the original work.

Vocab Word

affable: (adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
SYNONYMS: genial, amicable, agreeable, cordial
ANTONYMS: surly, cantankerous, dour, inhospitable

Punctuation

Use a semicolon (;) to separate two main clauses joined by the adverbs however, nevertheless, therefore, moreover, and consequently.

Ex. He played the best game of his life; however, his opponent played better.
Ex. The judge said that the sympathized with the man; nevertheless, he found him guilty.
Note the semicolon before and the comma after the adverb.