Vocabulary Quiz

Contentious: causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial

Apostrophe: a figure of speech represented by an exclamation

Paradox: absurd or self-contradictory state that may be true

Anaphora: repetition of a word or phrase successively

Dearth: a lack of something

Incongruous: not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings

Opulence: ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish

Superficiality: existing or occurring at or on the surface

Enjambment: continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line

Lament: a passionate expression of grief or sorrow

The lament of mourning crowd has the possibility of being contentious. Their speech could be filled with paradoxes and incongruous statements that astonish others. Their dearth of containment and unrestrained anaphoras are responded only by swift apostrophes. Their appearance displayed superficial opulence, but their words were anything but, every enjambment making their words cluttered and sentences befuddling.

Poem to Scott Lawrence

It’s okay to not live up to your family’s legacy

If you were to do that, you may have a lot of difficulties

Whatever you feel is best for you

Do that to show the real you

I know you’re struggling to be something you’re not

But dreams aren’t supposed to be stagnant and rot

Believe what feel and feel what you believe

Dreams are like manners, they deserve better treatment

Monster Creation Reflection

Creation is something that takes time and deep contemplation. Creating Scott Lawrence meant that my group was responsible for making our monster who he is and that nothing is left uncovered. We had to make sure he had a personality that fit his body and that fit our imaginations. True, we did have arguments with his general creation, but we compromised in the end with what was best for Scott Lawrence and satisfied each other's preference.

Though challenging, the activity was exciting because the monster we created, our creation, was who we wanted him to be. Despite the fact that he has a complicated backstory, Scott Lawrence turned out to be the creation our group desired.

Poem about Scott Lawrence

Good and Evil With No Soul

A legacy of savagery

A legacy of evil

A legacy of murder

But evil is not born

A creature lost

Between real and unreal

A creature lost in between good and evil

A creature made with no soul

Mixing the creature in a militias bowl

All can be good or evil with no soul

Scott Lawrence Origins

       M. Lawrence was by birth an American. During his creation, the lands surrounding the hidden, desolate shack he was born in became a tone quieter than before. The world knew that another monster was born. Twas likewise when the monster's son was born decades later. These monsters, father and son, reeked havoc upon the lands, creating for themselves a reputation of desolation and a path of souls and desperation. In a thirst for more destruction the father, P. Lawrence, had an idea that would affect not only the lives of the people, but also of his own.

       The two Lawrence men raided villages and ripped, tore, and slaughtered their way to finding the best limbs and pieces possible. Through these means, a son was born.

       The son, Scott Lawrence, was exactly what he was not supposed to be. He healed instead of killed, gave instead of stole, and brought life where his father and grandfather took it away. Therefore he was cast out of his family's graces.

       In anger and hurt, he stepped into his fathers' shoes and began his own coping of destruction and blame. He was becoming what his father wanted until he stopped. His eyes beheld something he had never witnessed in the lands of his crooked family. A garden of delicacy and vulnerability with a girl tending to each one.

       "Why do you water that ugly plant?" Scott had asked in a tone of bitter resentment. He found himself relating to the ugly plant with its rotten color and lumpy leaves.

       "Because," she responded, meeting his eyes (not his ugly appearance) and seeing him for who he truly was. "It's still a plant and deserves to grow as all the others. An appearance is just the gates to a beautiful garden."

King Lear Scenes 1 and 2

In Scene 2, Edmund plots against Edgar and his father for inheritance. He tricks his father into thinking that Edgar was plotting to kill him, then tricks Edgar into thinking that his father was planning to hurt him in a rage. It's easy to deduct that Edmund plans on turning the two against each other and coming out in the end on top.

In Scene 3, Cordelia's evil sisters plot against their father and mock him without his knowledge. Because of this, one can infer that something may happen to King Lear in return for his judgment of Cordelia and his false loving daughters. The daughters plot to drag the king down until they have all the power and title without obligation to their father.

Wish

They screamed, they shouted, they argued out loud
They shouted with blind eyes, heard not with ears
The world could hear them; they drew in a crowd
The crowd heard all the words, watched with their sneers.

A girl and her mother, center of all
Hatred and love, two hard faces, they clash
In the distance through pain, a crow, a call
The words she spits, across a face, a slash.

The girl wishes for her mother's demise
The mother lets out a sick chocking sound
Crowd of crows take their leave, unit they rise
Feathers and mother both collapse to ground.

Daughter stumbles back, startled by the sight
Not wanting her chest to feel quite so tight.