Colors: Violet

5 Comments

1] Voilet was thought to be made from a chemistry experiment mistake.


2] Tyrian Purple was made from shellfish found in the eastern Mediterranean.

3] Britain : it was appropriate to wear purple to a funeral.

4] Violet is the last color in the rainbow spectrum.

5] French tended to call violet "Perkins Purple."

4 Questions

1] Who was Samuel Pepys?

2] Why was Tyrain Purple so hard to find?

3] What was "thais haemastema"?

4] What is the Forbidden Silk?

3 Vocabulary

1] Elitism: Practice of a belief in rule by an elite.

2] Pretentious: Full of pretense or pretension.

3] Legions: Any large grup of armed men.

2 Literary Terms

1] "And I was in the town where books were the gods of the people." Metaphor.

2] "So the preists moved out and decay moved in." Personification.

1 Overview Sentence

Violet was actually a color found by a mistake.