WUP for Monday, 4/21

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. --Mark Twain

Vocab
restitution (n.) the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage
They made restitution for the damage to the car but never fully regained the friendship of its owner.
SYNONYMS: compensation, reimbursement

Lit Term
AMBIGUITY A technique by which a writer deliberately suggests two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” (Collection 5) has an ambiguous ending.

Harlem

    
      What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Usage

of Of is a preposition. Do not use of in place of have after verbs such as could, should, would, might, must, and ought [to]. Also, do not use had of for had.

EXAMPLES

You ought to have [not of] studied harder.
If he had [not had of] remembered the name of the author of “Mending Wall,” he would have [not would of] made a perfect score.

Homework
Read chapters 11-14 and answer the questions.