3. Analyze What theme about tradition and community does this poem convey? Draft an objective summary and then cite key details that help develop the theme over the course of the poem.

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

In the story “seventh grade” how do victor’s hopes and expectations about teresa at the beginning of the school day compare with his hopes and expectations about teresa at the end of the school day?

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man