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Glossary

Each week, every student will write an entry in our shared glossary. We will use the Docs on our Course Profile to collaborate on this glossary, each adding at least one entry per week. Words can include technical terms in the study of poetry, such as from our textbook, words you didn’t know when reading, or words you knew but needed to understand better in the context of the poem, or even words from our class discussions, others’ blog posts or comments, or course documents. I will also include in the glossary words for which you can complete the entry, rather than choosing your own word. For each entry, you will include:

• the word,
• its part of speech (eg, noun, adjective, verb)
• the most appropriate definition–not necessarily the first one
• the source of the definition
• the context of the word (eg, the poem title and line from our reading, the textbook section and page, or the discussion or course document date and subject)
• your explanation of the connotation of the word in that context
• your initials (to get credit for your work)

Word	Part of Speech	Definition Source Context Explanation	Initials
Ambiguity	noun	This word appears in chapter three. 1) Allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word,a phrase, an action, all of which can be supported by the context of the work Ex: Giving words or ideas two different connotations (chicken as an animal, and chicken as a coward person.) 2) Definition in the dictionary: Doubtfulness  or uncertainty of meaning or intention. Ex: There are several ambiguities in this text	R.S
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