Shocking
					"Shocking isn't it, my eyes bulging out with strains, and my teeth gritting against each other. For the AP Exam, do not fret, like I am to the right. A ninja must expect the unexpected and also should take the steps needed ahead of the enemy. If you do that, you'll win the game at the end because you took the steps ahead and prepared, and understood. Being shocked does not help you at all, but kills your enthusiasm. So look at it on the bright side, shock is basically fretting over something that had spontaneously occured."
		Synonyms: blowing out of the water, disgraceful, flooring, lurid, offending, outraging, scandalizing, scandalous, shameful, stunning, taking aback, traumatizing, outrageous Definitions: 1. Glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism 2. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation "the most shocking book of its time" Passage: At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."                                                     - Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Explanation:  The tone of Don Quixote’s speech is shocking. Cervantes creates this tone by presenting the reader with dramatic irony.  Both the reader and Sancho Panza are aware that the “giants” are not giants at all, but are windmills.  Don Quixote, on the other hand, is sternly and seriously convinced that they are indeed “monstrous giants” who he “will battle and slay” and “whose spoils [they (Don Quixote and Sancho Panza)] shall begin to make [their] fortunes.”  These statements are so outrageous to the reader and especially to Sancho Panza, who partially believes that Don Quixote is truly a knight, and expects to receive a title of governor of an island from Don Quixote as a repayment for his services, that they create a shocking tone in the passage.