★ travesty:  a situation, action, or event that shocks you because it is very different from what it

                     should be or because it seems very unfair

★  Italics and quotation marks are used for titles of books, plays and other works of art. These italics and quotation marks are used to set the title apart from the text surrounding it. 

Quotation marks enclose the titles of :

*Short works

*Sections of long works including chapters, articles, songs, short stories, essays, poems, short films, and any other time a long work is included in an anthology or collection 

*Technically, television shows and movies are to be italicized because individual scenes or episodes would be put in quotation marks.  However, many times these titles are put in quotation marks and you will find this done quite often, especially in reviews.

★  mock : to make someone or something look stupid by laughing at them, copying them, or saying something                         that is not kind

    

     Mockingbirds are a group of  New World passerine birds from the Mimidae family. They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians, often loudly and in rapid succession. 

     imitate : to copy something; to copy someone’s actions, words, or behaviour, often in order to

                     make people laugh

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The Tyger

BY WILLIAM BLAKE

         

        

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies. 

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain, 

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp, 

Dare its deadly terrors clasp! 

When the stars threw down their spears 

And water'd heaven with their tears: 

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright, 

In the forests of the night: 

What immortal hand or eye,

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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★ a- : not

  anarchy : a situation in which people are behaving in a way that ignores normal rules and laws, and are unable                   to be controlled

  anarchist : someone who believes that there should be no government or laws

  anarchism : the political belief that there should be no government or laws

★ mor- :  death

   moral

  morgue : a building or room where dead bodies are kept temporarily

  mortician ( undertaker )

  mortified : very ​embarrassed:

 

Six Feet Under

(an American drama television series)

         The show depicts members of the Fisher family, who run their funeral home in Los Angeles, and their friends and lovers. The series traces these characters' lives over the course of five years.