1. Draft the summary for The Odyssey Part 1, The Odyssey Part 2, The Odyssey Part 3, or Orpheus and Eurydice. Remember to use your own words and to focus only on important informatio
2. Refer to the strategies on pp. 294–297 in The Essential Guide to Language, Writing, & Literature to construct powerful paragraphs for your summary. Take note of the specific tips about
writing a topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence. Working on the draft you completed earlier, revise and edit the summary for the use of the literary present tense
and for chronological order. Make sure that sentences are clear, concise, and varied in structure.

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

In at least 150 words, discuss the comparison described in the figurative language and how the connotative language reinforces the symbol. be sure to include a definition if your terms

What is the phrase a tiny shoot of phase prikled by the mind