Thursday, January 24, 2008

Warmup

1. Close Reading is reading and then rereading the material you are presented.
2. Pastoral- A genre describing farm life. [relating to the farming or grazing of sheep or cattle or (of a literary, artistic, or musical work) portraying country life, especially in an idealized form. Oxford]
Mistress- A female master. [a woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership; a woman skilled in a particular subject or activity; a woman (other than a wife) having a sexual relationship with a married man; chiefly Brit. a female schoolteacher. Oxford]
Nymph- A mythological creature. [a mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden; literary a beautiful young woman; an immature form of an insect such as a dragonfly. Oxford]

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