Complete the sentence. after you have used context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word, you should replace the unfamiliar word with a synonym to see if the sentence makes sense. continue reading. think of an antonym for the unfamiliar word. look up the unfamiliar word in a dictionary to check its meaning.

D.  look up the unfamiliar word in a dictionary to check its meaning.

Context clues will always provide hints with regard to helping readers figure out what a word  or term means.  However, after figuring out what a word means based upon context clues (which should only be considered the first step), what you should do is look up the word in question.  This should be done so you could check your interpretation as well as help you commit the new word or term to memory.  

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it

odysseus shows many acts of bravery in homer's epic poem the odyssey. first, he shows bravery when he tricks polyphemus, the cyclops, and gouges out his eye. this is an act of bravery. it will also cost him because polyphemus was the son of poseidon, the god of the sea.

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