Pleass Help! Directions: Fill in the chart using complete sentences.
•
•
Choose a descriptive quotation from each paragraph that represents Muir's writing style.
Describe his use of diction and connotation in each of your selected quotations. Include at least
two specific examples of connotative words for each quotation, identifying the connotation of
each example and describing the tone the examples create.
Explain the effect that the author's diction has on the reader.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

In a midsummer night dream, the mention of is an allusion to earlier english poetry

Which sentence from the passage best summarizes this school’s policy on tobacco?