Find a word in "The Story of the Porter and the Three Ladies" with which you are unfamiliar. Use any or all of the strategies in this lesson to determine its meaning. In at least one hundred and fifty words, describe what you did to define the word. Include a reference to its context in the story, and the word's definition. Finish by using the word in a new sentence. The word is quinces, the help will be immensely appreciated.

Read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: how is this excerpt an example of dramatic monologue? the narrator is using long, interconnected sentences. the narrator is able to see into two character's heads. the narrator is addressing the audience directly. the narrator is jumping from one topic to the next topic