Month: October 2019

Noun

a ruler with absolute power and authority

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/despots

In the article, “No Place for Self-Pitty, No Room for Fear” the author, Toni Morrison states, “Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools … Read More...

Noun

a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pilloried

In the article, “No Place for Self-Pitty, No Room for Fear, the author, Toni Morrison states, “I felt foolish the rest of the morning, especially when I recalled the artists who had done their work in gulags, prison cells, hospital beds; who did their work while hounded, exiled, reviled, pilloried. And those who were executed.”

The author, Toni Morrison used the word PILLORIED by describing how brutal the conditions were for the artist. They … Read More...

 

Flux (Noun)

1. A continuous moving on or passing by (as of a stream)

2. A continued flow : FLOOD

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flux

In the article, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” the author Nancy Sommers said, “This sense, however, is constantly in flux as ideas are developed and modified.”

In this sentence, Nancy Sommers used the word “flux” to say that students are always adding, dropping, substituting and reordering ideas as they come up with new ideas. Their ideas are always flowing, changing as they add on to and edit their work.… Read More...

Dissonance (Noun)

A. Lack of agreement

B. An instance of such inconsistency or disagreement

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissonance

 

In the article, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” the author Nancy Sommers said, “Here we can see the importance of dissonance; at the heart of revision is the process by which writers recognize and resolve the dissonance they sense in their writing.”

In this article, Nancy Sommers meant that students use revision strategies to edit and fix any work that they feel that disagrees with what they’re trying to convey in their writings. 

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