Read the excerpt from the awakening. the very first chords which mademoiselle reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down mrs. pontellier's spinal column. it was not the first time she had heard an artist at the piano. perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth. she waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. she waited in vain. she saw no pictures of solitude, of hope, of longing, or of despair. but the very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body. she trembled, she was choking, and the tears blinded her. which statement best explains how the excerpt reveals a moment of epiphany for mrs. pontellier? she is lost in memories from her past. she recognizes her moral duty to society. she understands exactly what action she must take. she is going through a personal transformation.

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?