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My grandmother has a word in her language for the smell of rain on dry earth. My English teacher says there’s a word for it in English too — petrichor — but nobody I know has ever said it out loud.
Grandma’s word, she tells me, also means "the moment you know you are home." When she says it, she closes her eyes.
I am trying to write a poem about her for class. Every English word I choose is the wrong size: too small, or shaped like something else. Love is too big and too worn out. Home is a building. Rain is just weather.
In the end I turn in a poem that is only one line long. It is her word, untranslated, followed by my name. My teacher writes in the margin: "I don’t know what this means. I think that’s the point."
Vocabulary: petrichor — determine its meaning from context: ________________
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Free Grade 10 English worksheet (Common Core RL.9-10.4): analyze point of view, word choice and structure in "Translation". Skill: Word choice, structure and point of view. Level: Grade 10 — also suits Year 11 (UK).
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Word choice, structure and point of view.
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