The glass castle English 11b

***Make sure you read pages 32-61

Choose 1 of the vignettes (short stories) written by Jeanette Walls from the sections of The Glass Castle we have read so far and write a CER+ER+ paragraph demonstrating how she makes it entertaining. To complete this paragraph, choose 1 or 2 literary techniques that Walls uses to help the story "come alive" and write about how it (they) are effective.

OUTLINE

C: Will include title, author, which vignette you writing about, and the literary techniques she used.

E: Lead-in and quote with technique 1 in it.

R: Effect of the literary style

+: How it makes the story better or more entertaining

E: Lead-in and quote with technique 2 in it.

R: Effect of the literary style

+: How it makes the story better or more entertaining

yes yes it does !

fiction/fantasy

explanation:

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

hope this !

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”