English 7
Week Thirty
Notes
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Vocabulary
Changeling: NOUN
Changeling in a sentence:
Recent Examples on the Web
The folktale of the changeling is here recontextualized into a modern setting.
— Sheena Scott, Forbes, 18 June 2021
In most stories, a changeling is a fairy child that replaces a human one, typically without the baby or the human parents knowing.
— Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Jan. 2021
True History of the Kelly Gang focuses its culture-wide vision into an unhidden life, divided into three sections: BOY is where young Ned (Orlando Schwerdt) resembles a pale, blond changeling who could become anything.
— Armond White, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
Amity:Noun
: FRIENDSHIP especially : friendly relations between nations
an era of international amity
Synonyms
gemütlichkeit, good-fellowship, goodwill, kindliness, neighborliness
Antonyms
Amity in a sentence:
Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, an eight-part dance competition premiering on Amazon, taps into this natural amity between fat women.
— Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022
Xi’s first in person with a world leader in nearly two years — is expected to be yet another public display of geopolitical amity between the two powers.
— Edward Wong, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
Myles calls on three A’s to help leaders think about belonging: alignment, appreciation, and amity.
— Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
Vex: VERB
Vex in a sentence:
Examples of vex in a Sentence
This problem has vexed researchers for years.
We were vexed by the delay.
Recent Examples on the Web
While most economists tend to acknowledge the same causes of inflation, many disagree which elements are most driving the price increases that continue to vex American consumers.
— NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
A down year for potential franchise passers would likely vex most teams that landed the No. 1 pick.
— Michael Middlehurst-schwartz, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2022
The loyalty problem, so evident with the ANAP, soon would vex the ALP, too.
— David Axe, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
Rite :NOUN
Definition of rite
1a: a prescribed form or manner governing the words or actions for a ceremony
b: the ceremonial practices of a church or group of churches
2: a ceremonial act or action----initiation rites
3: a division of the Christian church using a distinctive liturgy
Rite in a sentence:
Examples of rite in a Sentence
Incense is often burned in their religious rites.
the annual summer rite of loading up the car for the big family vacation
Recent Examples on the Web
Rome’s Catholic archdiocese said in a statement Tuesday that priests at the parish of St. Lucy in a central Rome neighborhood, including the one who presided at the funeral rite, had no idea of what would happen outside the church on Monday.
— NBC News, 12 Jan. 2022
Packing feels like both a mindless reprieve from work and a rite of self-reflection.
— Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
In 1990, when his uncle rode a horse similarly for his wedding — an important rite for Indian grooms — he was pulled from the horse and beaten mercilessly by men from higher castes.
— Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2022
Enmity in a sentence:
Examples of enmity in a Sentence
Bin Laden may no longer be supplying directions and funding, but his ethos of enmity lives on.
— Michael Hirsh et al., Newsweek, 10 June 2002
What has earned her the enmity of so many peers is her indiscriminate outspokenness.
— Karen Springer, Newsweek, 10 June 1996
Battles over slavery in the territories broke the second party system apart and then shaped a realigned system that emphasized sectional enmity.
— Mary Beth Norton et al., A People and a Nation, 1988
Poetry 101
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The English writer and Anglican cleric John Donne is considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. He was born in 1572 to Roman Catholic parents, when practicing that religion was illegal in England. His work is distinguished by its emotional and sonic intensity and its capacity to plumb the paradoxes of faith, human and divine love, and the possibility of salvation. Donne often employs conceits, or extended metaphors, to yoke together “heterogenous ideas,” in the words of Samuel Johnson, thus generating the powerful ambiguity for which his work is famous. After a resurgence in his popularity in the early 20th century, Donne’s standing as a great English poet, and one of the greatest writers of English prose, is now assured.
The history of Donne’s reputation is the most remarkable of any major writer in English; no other body of great poetry has fallen so far from favor for so long. In Donne’s own day his poetry was highly prized among the small circle of his admirers, who read it as it was circulated in manuscript, and in his later years he gained wide fame as a preacher. For some 30 years after his death successive editions of his verse stamped his powerful influence upon English poets. During the Restoration his writing went out of fashion and remained so for several centuries. Throughout the 18th century, and for much of the 19th century, he was little read and scarcely appreciated. It was not until the end of the 1800s that Donne’s poetry was eagerly taken up by a growing band of avant-garde readers and writers. His prose remained largely unnoticed until 1919.
In the first two decades of the 20th century Donne’s poetry was decisively rehabilitated. Its extraordinary appeal to modern readers throws light on the Modernist movement, as well as on our intuitive response to our own times. Donne may no longer be the cult figure he became in the 1920s and 1930s, when T.S. Eliot and William Butler Yeats, among others, discovered in his poetry the peculiar fusion of intellect and passion and the alert contemporariness which they aspired to in their own art. He is not a poet for all tastes and times; yet for many readers Donne remains what Ben Jonson judged him: “the first poet in the world in some things.” His poems continue to engage the attention and challenge the experience of readers who come to him afresh. His high place in the pantheon of the English poets now seems secure.
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