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This passage models rich sensory imagery (color, scent, light) and introduces simile ('like a great rose window'). The language paints a picture that matches what Anne herself sees — beauty so overwhelming it strikes even her speechless. Strong vocabulary density and rhetorical sophistication for a young copyist.
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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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell someone what happened in this chapter in order. When you get to the most important part, slow down and tell it carefully — what happened, why it mattered, and what you think about it.
Discussion Questions
- Matthew finds out that a girl came instead of a boy. He decides not to tell Anne about the mistake and takes her home instead. Was Matthew being kind or was he being cowardly? What in the story makes you think so?
- Anne talks and talks on the drive home, but then she sees the Avenue — the road covered with white apple blossoms — and goes completely silent. Why does the author show us both Anne's talking AND her silence? What in the story helps you understand why this matters?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Wanting something you might not be able to have
Item 2
Not pretty to look at
Item 3
Old and worn out from too much use
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