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Montgomery renders the blossoming Avenue in cathedral imagery, turning an ordinary arch of apple-trees into something sacred. Copying this layered sentence trains students in descriptive syntax, sensory detail, and the simile that explains why the place strikes Anne speechless.
Overhead was one long canopy of snowy fragrant bloom. Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of ...
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Narration Prompt
Reconstruct the chapter's movement: Matthew's drive and dread, the mix-up he discovers at Bright River, his decision, and the long, transforming conversation on the road home.
Discussion Questions
- Anne fills the drive with vivid talk about imagination, the asylum she left, and her hunger for a home. What does the way Anne talks, and what she chooses to dwell on, reveal about how she copes with a hard life, and why does that chatter disarm the shy Matthew? Use details from the chapter.
- Matthew, who would rather 'beard a lion' than approach a strange child, instead brings Anne home and leaves the truth to Marilla. Why does Matthew make this choice, and what does it reveal about him? Use details from the chapter.
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Stiffness; the state of being tense and unbending.
Item 2
Quick to notice and judge things wisely.
Item 3
Showing thoughts and feelings clearly.
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