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Nodding at each of the students, she smiled. "You're all indeed on the right track. Paragrams could be considered a type of wordplay, which is to say that they imply words to be graceful, well-placed even. It is commonly used in literature, in particular, poetry with all lines having the same sum." Perhaps some of them would see where she was heading now with the lesson... But before she went further, there were confused students.
Yayy she was right! Ariana did a happy dance in her head. And now she was learning more... She took a couple notes on the paragrams.
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PhoenixRising "Using the chart listed, you'll assign each letter in the word the number. Add up all the numbers in the word together, but in most cases where we reduce to a single digit, with Paragrams, you're NOT going to reduce."
Hmm, perhaps they ought to practice with simple words for a bit. "Okay, so take a few moments to practice this by taking five words synonymous with who you are and translating them to a number equivalent, as I did with my last name, Hadley."
Okay, not reducing... but why? Hmmm.... Ariana supposed Professor Hadley would explain later, just like she'd explained about the paragrams. But... yay, they got to do math! Though not as fun as reading, math was one of Ariana's favorite classes! So... words relating to her.... BOOKS popped into her mind. Next came RAVENCLAW and WRITER, then ARTIST. Searching around in her head for a bit, Ariana finally came up with MERINGUES. Yum yum
Now she got to calculate stuff, woohoo! She got this done fairly quickly, and looked up at Professor Hadley for further instruction.
Ariana had no idea what those numbers meant, or why they weren't supposed to add them down to a single digit... oh well, at least she hoped she was doing what Professor Hadley said right!