Ann Frank's Diary part 1 ...

Plot Summary

Anne receives a diary on her thirteenth birthday. She names it Kitty.

One day, Nazi police send a call-up notice for her father and her sister Margot for their deportation to a concentration camp. They flee to their hiding place, the Secret Annexe.

Another family, the Van Daans, arrive with their son Peter. Anne particularly dislikes the frivolous Mrs. Van Daan. She also complains that the grown-ups criticize her.

Anne tells Kitty that her Jewish friends are being taken away by the dozens. They are loaded into cattle trucks and sent toconcentration camps.

Daddy gets sick, but they cannot call a doctor, since they are in hiding. Anne reads a book on puberty and longs to have her period. She does not like to say her prayers with Mummy, for she finds Mummy cold. She gets jealous of Margot sometimes.

They take in another person, Mr. Dussel. He is stubborn. Anne often feels guilty for being safe in hiding while her Jewish friends are probably suffering.

Anne feels frustrated that she is criticized so often. She still does not get along with Mrs. Van Daan, and still finds Mummy cold, refusing to pray with her, upsetting her greatly.

Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner. Still, Anne feels lucky that they have food and shelter, that they are able to laugh at each other, and that they have books and a radio.

There is an announcement that Italy has surrendered. This gives them hope for peace.

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WORDS FOLLOWED BY PREPOSITIONS

Certain Verbs, Nouns, Adjective, and Participles are always followed by particular Prepositions.

1. Mumbai is famous for its textiles.

2. The goat subsists on the coarsest of food.

3. Jawaharlal Nehru was fond of children.

4. India is a noble, gorgeous land, teeming with natural wealth.

5. Being appraised of our approach, the whole neighborhood came out to meet their minister.

6. In the classical age the ideal life of the Brahman was divided into four stages or ashrams.

7. It is natural in every man to wish for distinction.

8. He was endowed with gifts fitted to win eminence in any field of human activity.

9. The writer is evidently enamoured of the subject.

10. These computers are cheap enough to be accessible to most people.

11. Ambition does not always conduce to ultimate happiness.

12. The true gentleman is courteous and affable to his neighbors.

13. Newly acquired freedom is sometimes liable to abuse.

14. Little Jack proved quite a match for the desert.

15. Camels are peculiarly adapted to life in the desert.

16. He is a man of deep learning, but totally ignorant of life and manners.

17. The income derived from the ownership of land is commonly called rent.

18. The Moors were famous for their learning and their skill all kinds of industries.

19. Alexander profited by the dissensions of the Punjab Rajas.

20. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

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THE ACCURSED HOUSE. Intro....

THE ACCURSED HOUSE

BY EMILE GABORIAU

Emile Gaboriau, best known for his remarkable detective stories, was born at Sanson in 1853, and died at Paris in 1873. He was for a time private secretary of Paul Feval, the novelist, and published a great variety of work. In 1866 appeared in the paper called "Le Pays" his first great detective story, "L' Affaire Lerouge," which the author dram- atized in collaboration with Hostein in 1872. Like all of the great series, "U Affaire Le- rouge" "Monsieur Lecoq," "Les Esclaves de Paris," etc., are written in an easy flowing style, and are full of exciting moments.

It is interesting to trace the ancestry of the modern detective story. The first seeds are said to be found in Voltaire's "Zadig"; they germinate in Poe's tales, take form in Gabo- riau, and are in full bloom in Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes."

The Butterfly part one...

Stay near me---do not take thy flight!

A little longer stay in sight!

Much converse do I find I thee,

Historian of my infancy !

Float near me; do not yet depart!

Dead times revive in thee:

Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!

A solemn image to my heart,

My father's family!



Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days,

The time, when, in our childish plays,

My sister Emmeline and I

Together chased the butterfly!

A very hunter did I rush

Upon the prey:---with leaps and spring

I followed on from brake to bush;

But she, God love her, feared to brush

The dust from off its wings.

William Wordsworth,

To a Butterfly.....

TO A BUTTERFLY
Written in the orchard, Town-end, Grasmere.

I'VE watched you now a full half-hour;
Self-poised upon that yellow flower
And, little Butterfly! indeed
I know not if you sleep or feed.
How motionless!—not frozen seas
More motionless! and then
What joy awaits you, when the breeze
Hath found you out among the trees,
And calls you forth again!

This plot of orchard-ground is ours; 10
My trees they are, my Sister's flowers;
Here rest your wings when they are weary;
Here lodge as in a sanctuary!
Come often to us, fear no wrong;
Sit near us on the bough!
We'll talk of sunshine and of song,
And summer days, when we were young;
Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.

William Wordsworth, 1802

Figure Of Speech

Figures of Speech

Apostrophe:
A direct address made to an inanimate objects or abstract ideas as if they were present and capable of understanding.
1. And, little butterfly! I know not if you sleep or feed.
2.

Tautology:
Unnecessary usage of words, which do not add more meaning
1. Lies defeated and buried deep three or four hours unconscious.
2.
Hyperbole:
A statement is emphasized by an overstatement.
1. I will love thee still my dear till a’ the seas gang dry.
2.
Metonymy:
A characteristic of a thing is represented by another closely related to it.
1. Her world is an infinite shapeless white.
2.

Synecdoche:
A part stands for the whole or the whole stands for a part to create the poetic effect.
1. Till the heart of me weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home.
2.

Transferred epithet:
The description or objective is transferred from its original noun to another closely related to it.
1. And pressing the small poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings
2.

Figures of Speech
Antithesis:
Contrasting or opposite ideas or words are used.
1. Of my childhood days is upon me, my manhood is cast.
2.

Oxymoron:
A special form of antithesis where two contradictory terms are united to convey a new meaning.
1. She made a sweet moron.
2.

Irony:
A real meaning is exactly the opposite of that which is literally conveyed.
1. The life is most jolly.
2.

Euphemism;
Unpleasant idea of death or a disagreeable thing is spoken in a positive manner.
1. I will luve thee still my dear while the sands of life shall run.
2.

Litotes:
Use of negation is used to convey a positive meaning.
1. He knows he can never turn back.
2.

Paradox:
A self –contradictory or absurd statement which has some hidden truth or a message it
1. Down in the flood of remembrances I weep like a child for the past.
2.

Internal Rhyme:

Use of two or more words which rhyme within a single line of a verse
1. A child sitting under the piano in the boom of the tangling strings.
2.

Personification:
Non-living objects and abstract nouns are said to have human qualities
1. Inspite of myself, the insidious mastery of song betrays me.
2.

Interrogation:
Question is asked not for the sake of getting an answer, but to create the poetic effect.
1. Why all this toil and trouble?
2.
Exclamation:
Use of exclamatory form to draw attention
1. My luve’s like a red red rose.!
2.

Climax:
A series of ideas or words are places in an increasing order or importance for the poetic effect.
1. She sighs and dreams and thrills and glows.
2.

Anticlimax:
A series of ideas or words are places are in decreasing order of importance for poetic effect.
1. I saw pale kings, princes and warriors.
2.

Simile:
Direct comparison is made between two unlike objects which have at least one common point. Words like ‘as’ and ‘like’ are used.
1. The white saucer like some full moon descends at last from the clouds of the table above.
2.

Metaphor:
It is an indirect simile. Indirect comparison is made between two unlike objects, where comparison is taken for granted.
1. She nestles over the shining rim, buries her chin in the creamy sea.
2.

Onomatopoeia:
Use of words which produce sound of echo for poetic effect
1. The little black cat is suddenly purring there.
2.

Epigram:
A brief pointed saying which is introduced with an aim to exite, surprise and attract attention.
1. The child is the father of man.
2.