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This sentence builds a landscape from bottom to top — cliffs, rocks, coves, sea, gulls, sunlight — using a semicolon to connect two vivid images. The metaphor 'inlaid with pebbles as with ocean jewels' transforms a beach into a treasure chest. 'Pinions flashing silvery' adds precise physical detail. The passage practices semicolons, compound imagery, and the technique of moving the reader's eye through a scene.
Down at the base of the cliffs were heaps of surf-worn rocks or little sandy coves inlaid with pebbles as with ocean jewels; beyond lay the sea, shimmering and blue, and over it soared the gulls, thei...
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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
- When Marilla asks if Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Hammond were good to Anne, Anne says, 'Oh, they meant to be.' She defends people who made her life very hard. Is Anne being kind, or is she hiding the truth about how she was treated? What in the story makes you think so?
- Anne says, 'My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes,' and then says this sentence COMFORTS her because it sounds romantic. How can something sad make a person feel better? What in the story helps you understand how Anne uses words to change how she feels?
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With strong determination that will not change
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A place where dead things are buried
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Exciting and beautiful in a dreamy, story-like way
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