Homework:
Research: Analyze Dorian's relationship with Sibyl in the light of three very different mythological motifs: the stories of Actaeon and Artemis, Narcissus and Echo, and Adonis and Venus.
Day II Homework:
Note the literary Devices:
Similes- hair clustered r ound face like dark leaves around a play rose; she trembled like a white narcissus; her body swayed...as a play sways in the water; drunkards chattering like a monstrous apes.
Personification- Nature.
Vocabulary:
infatuation: a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
virtues: a good or admirable quality or property.
incorrigible: not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform.
pompous: Characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity.
spiritualize: To invest with or treat as having a spiritual sense or meaning.
interminable: Having no limit.
fiasco: a complete and ignominious failure.
profanation: blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character.
anodyne: A medicine that relieves or allays pain.
illusion: something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
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