“As the uncle slapped the reins and the horse lurched forward, the boy tried to jump into the wagon, but his mother pried his hands off the boards, crying, Gego, gego, and he fell down hard.”
“She became a gray sky, stared monotonously at the walls, sometimes wept into her hands for hours at a time.”
“She was moody and sullen one moment, her lower lip jutting and her eyes flashing, filled with storms. The next, she would shake her hair over her face and blow it straight out in front of her to make her children scream with laughter.”
“Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, grey-black building on the other side of the street – which was a hospital – could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular line of windows piercing its facade..”
In Frank Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
Describing his setting, it shows us how it was to be confined to that room.
I found this exercise helpful because its a way to strengthen my vocabulary. The majority of these words i looked up, i didn’t know the meaning to them. The ones i did, i looked up anyways to know the different meanings to that word. I also posted them cause i hoped it would help me use these words more. I try hard on improving my vocabulary so i hope this exercise helped. Even after this course i’m going to continue this exercise.
Adjective
“THE NEGRO met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared.” (Faulkner, Ch5, paragraph1, PDF) – A Rose For Emily
Noun
“At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, ‘Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer.’ But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige– –
without calling it noblesse oblige.” (Faulkner, Ch3, paragraph3, PDF)
Noun
“A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all.” (Faulkner, 4th paragraph, PDF) – A Rose For Emily
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