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Monday, February 9, 2009

Last Breath post 7

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- the man in this story is a rock climber
- he is climbing
-he slips from the fall and falls about a 100 ft.
- he wakes up on a ledge and discovers he has a broken leg and spleen and he eventually props his foot.
-he dies a day later and is found in exactly the same position that he died in, six years ago

4 questions
- why didn't he just not go climbing that day?
- why was it good that Antoni didn't come to work on monday?
-would he have survived if he had some rope?
- woudl he have died at a later time if he didn't shout that last shout?

3 vocabulary words
prosaic-commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
centrifugal-moving or directed outward from the center
idyll-a simple descriptive or narrative piece in verse or pros

2 literary terms
simile- blood-filled mass hit the ledge, it split open like a ripe cantaloupe dropped on the sidewalk.
onomatopoeia- clickety clickety clickety goes his right knee

1 overview sentence
the man falls off a ledge, dies a day later, and his remains are found 6 years later by a hunter.

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