In this activity, you'll use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words from The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Refer back to the story as you fill out the table below. In the Contextual Meaning column, write the meanings that you are able to derive from the story alone. After you've added the contextual meanings for all words, look up the words in a dictionary and fill in the actual definitions in the Dictionary Definition column. Then, in the Notes/Comments column, write about how the contextual definitions compare to the dictionary definitions and whether context was enough to come up with a good understanding of these unfamiliar words.

the answer would be yes because the basket is full.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.  

this answer to this question is c. allegory

why?

stories with allegories have a hidden symbolic meaning with a theme. the hidden meaning can be political, or other real life problems.

voracity is the noun corresponding to the adjective voracious, which means (1) eager to consume a great amount of food, or (2) marked by an insatiable appetite. veracity is far more common than the rare voracity, so the latter is sometimes used in place of the former.