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raise your hand if you know what "denouement" means. WITHOUT looking it up.
 
to me this is standard high school english class, but perhaps i had a weird high school. 
Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 08:59PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments17 Comments

Reader Comments (17)

*raises hand*

Mar 13, 2008 at 09:27PM | Unregistered Commentergwyneth

hand raised

Mar 13, 2008 at 10:02PM | Unregistered CommenterVal

Also raising my hand.

Mar 13, 2008 at 10:09PM | Unregistered CommenterJennifer

I'm stupid, loved english... but didn't know.

My wife raises her hand.

Mar 13, 2008 at 11:06PM | Unregistered Commenterpaul

nope

Mar 14, 2008 at 07:43AM | Unregistered Commenterkt

Today I can raise my hand.

Mar 14, 2008 at 10:21AM | Unregistered Commenterbeth

Went to Meigs HS... Anyone from around here knows I lucky if I can spell words larger than 5 letters...

So until last nite, that was a no.

Mar 14, 2008 at 12:33PM | Unregistered CommenterTy

I wasn't 100% sure, so I looked it up to see if I was right, but I was :)

Mar 14, 2008 at 02:27PM | Unregistered CommenterIan

Raising my hand!

Mar 14, 2008 at 03:23PM | Unregistered Commenterrachel mcH

i think the only reason i know this word is because i watched clerks.

Mar 14, 2008 at 11:20PM | Unregistered Commenteralijoon

hand raised! wohoo! i *knew* this would come in handy someday.

Mar 14, 2008 at 11:28PM | Unregistered Commenterj.doc

Yeah, but I probably would have spelled it wrong.

Mar 15, 2008 at 02:52PM | Unregistered CommenterSuebob

Hand now crammed firmly in pocket.

Mar 16, 2008 at 11:31PM | Unregistered CommenterAndrea H.

Damn failed again by my over priced "Catholic" education, (face convays furry with God) now I cant use "for the public schoolers" as a mid sentence conjunction (did he just misuse the word conjunction, man who is this butcher of language?)

Mar 18, 2008 at 09:38AM | Unregistered CommenterAndrew Luis

aaaand for those of us who don't know the answer OR care enough to look it up - going to tell us? :)

clerks. i saw that too! it made me apathetic and dumber. obviously.

Mar 19, 2008 at 04:32PM | Unregistered Commentersjw

I looked it up, I admit. I had one of those 'ooooooooooo, yeah, I remember that' moments. Shakespeare, yeah. I try not to remember.

Mar 21, 2008 at 08:49PM | Unregistered CommenterJenlyn

I actually drew one recently. On an index card. I was doing one of those standard three act plot diagrams for my friend (inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action=denouement.) A denouement, according to my index card, is a line slanting downwards from left to right at about a 35 degree angle.

Apr 12, 2008 at 08:00PM | Unregistered CommenterSusannah

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