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Teacher Notes
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aCTIVITy 4.7
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elements of Humor: Comic Characters and Caricatures
my Notes
5. Craft and Structure: What is the meaning of the word “habitation” in paragraph 9? What clues in the text leading up to and including paragraph 9 support your response?
Habitation refers to a living area. We know from paragraph 1 that Nuttel is waiting in an area for Mrs. Sappleton. In paragraph 9, the author references “something about the room.” RL.8.4
6. Key Ideas and Details: What tone does the niece convey with her description of the “tragedy” in paragraph 14? What effect might this precise detail have on her guest?
The niece conveys a mysterious and pitying tone; Nuttel is probably feeling uncomfortable since he is already of a very nervous disposition, and he came to the home expecting an ordinary, boring encounter with a country lady. RL.8.3
7. Craft and Structure: What context clues tell you the meaning of the word “bog” in paragraph 14?
Answers include “crossing the moor,” “engulfed,” “dreadful wet summer,” “places that were safe...gave way suddenly without warning.” RL.8.4
8. Key Ideas and Details: Why is it “horrible” for Framton to listen to Mrs. Sappleton as noted in paragraph 19?
Mrs. Sappleton sounds happy and excited about something Nuttel thinks is a figment of her imagination. RL.8.3
9. Craft and Structure: What is the meaning of the word “ailments” in paragraph 20? What clues in the text support your response?
“Ailments” refers to disease or sickness. Nuttle has just shared what his doctors have required of him, and the text references “infirmities,” “cause,” and “cure.” RL.8.4
10. Key Ideas and Details: What does the author tell the reader in his narration that makes Framton Nuttel appear silly and pathetic in paragraph 20? Why?
He tells the reader that Nuttel thinks others “are hungry for the last detail” about his illnesses. This makes him less sympathetic, so the niece’s joke seems more amusing than cruel. RL.8.1
11. Key Ideas and Details: Why is Nuttel’s reaction to the return of the men in paragraph 25 comic rather than appropriate?
He doesn’t get the joke that has been played on him, because he takes himself so seriously, but the reader has begun to suspect the joke. RL.8.3
12. Key Ideas and Details: What aspects of the niece’s character are revealed in her last line of dialogue in paragraph 28?
The reader knows she loves to spin imaginative stories, or romances. RL.8.3
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