Constantly Risking Absurdity (#15) Vocabulary

foolishness, stupidity, or senselessness

• absurdity

• entrechats

• perceive

• perforce

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

dance-like jumps in which the performer taps his or her feet together quickly while in the air

• entrechats

• perceive

• perforce

• rime

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

to understand or see

• perceive

• perforce

• rime

• spread eagle

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

a variation of the word rhyme

• rime

• spread eagle

• supposed

• taut

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

a kind of jump in which the arms and legs are stretched out so that the body takes the shape of an X.

• spread eagle

• supposed

• taut

• ars poetica

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

believed to be true

• supposed

• taut

• ars poetica

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

stretched tightly

• taut

• ars poetica

• personification

• absurdity

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a poem about the craft of poetry

• ars poetica

• personification

• absurdity

• entrechats

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

describing non-human things as if they had human qualities

• personification

• absurdity

• entrechats

• perceive

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

necessarily

• perforce

• rime

• spread eagle

• supposed

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E