High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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READING LITERATURE
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From the memoir North of the River by Hattie Vane (original):
My grandfather's face, when he came in from the fields, was weathered in a way I did not, as a child, know how to read. I thought it meant old. Later I thought it meant tired. Only when I was grown, and had spent a single August pulling flax under the same sun that had polished him for sixty years, did I understand that weathered was neither of these. It was the record of what a body had refused to be defeated by. Each line was an argument the sun had lost.
As the passage develops, the word weathered comes to signify:
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