Warm-up and Freewrite

Close Reading is paying specific attention to the text when you're reading a passage. It means analyzing words as if they mean more than just the actual text that is on the page. When reading closely, technique and sentence order becomes more important than it would have been if not for reading closely.

Pastoral refers to the life and description of those involved in countryside life.

OED Definitions

• A person or thing associated with spiritual care.
• A rural and idyllic scene or picture.
• Pastoral poetry as a form or style of literary composition.
• Relating to the tending of livestock.

[<>PASTURAL adj. and n.) <>PASTOR n. + -lis -AL suffix1. Cf. Old French, Middle French, French pastoral, adjective (c1200-96 with reference to spiritual leaders, 1247-96 with reference to shepherds), Italian pastorale, adjective (a1243-96 with reference to bishops, a1375-96 with reference to shepherds), Spanish pastoral, noun (1376-96 with reference to St Gregory's work) and adjective (1350-1450 in an ecclesiastical context, 1490 in cantico pastoral). With senses at branch A. II. cf. PASTORALE n., PASTOREL n., PASTORELLA n., PASTORETA n., PASTOURELLE n., and foreign-language parallels and models cited s.vv. With sense B. I. cf. also PASTURAL adj.

My definition compared to the OED definition were fairly similar. They both concerned a type of writing and they both envoked a sense of countryside.

Mistress is a woman, leader of a household. I usually associate the word in a negative manner to describe an adulterous woman.

A Shepherd, religious, livestock, leader, Jesus, poor, spiritual, english, old, traditional, countryside, green, Ireland, England, storybook, content, leading sheep, outdoors, farming, dog

desert-dry, sandy, no water, hot, sun, religous, not much life, void of emotions, lonely, oasis

Universe-movie, world, large, green, blue, continents, planets, darkness, stars, cold, earth, gases, beatles, starwars, many different ones.