In this discussion, you will discuss with other students using vocabulary while reading a difficult text, The Hobbit. Let's read Dakota's post.

Reading The Hobbit is not exactly like reading the modern novels I am used to reading. The words seem old-fashioned, and some sentences are confusing. I use the words I know to help me understand the words I don't know. Using context clues, I can usually figure out the new words and what Tolkien is trying to say.

Create one post that answers the following prompt.

The reading in The Hobbit can be challenging. Describe how you use vocabulary to help you understand the text.

Which statement best describes thomas paines usesof evidence in the passage the crisis no. 1?

Excerpt from an enemy of the people henrik ibsen mrs. stockmann. (turns to the hall door, listening.) i expect that is mr. hovstad coming. billing. very likely. (peter stockmann comes in. he wears an overcoat and his official hat, and carries a stick.) peter stockmann. good evening, katherine. mrs. stockmann (coming forward into the sitting-room). ah, good evening--is it you? how good of you to come up and see us! peter stockmann. i happened to be passing, and into the dining-room). but you have company with you, i see. mrs. stockmann (a little embarrassed). oh, no--it was quite by chance he came in. (hurriedly.) won't you come in and have something, too? peter stockmann. i! no, you. good gracious--hot meat at night! not with my digestion, when peter stockmann enters, what does his physical appearance to reveal about his character?

The dog high-tailed it out of here is an example of personification simile theme idiom