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background

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tells a story through characterization, dialogue, plot, and settings. the narrator in each poem, is talking to the reader

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the tone in Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology

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is both favorable and critical of rural life

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Edgar Lee Masters’ collection of epitaphs, Spoon River Anthology, is

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a collection of epitaphs written in person – “writings from the dead” so to speak

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according to her epitaph in the Spoon River Anthology, where did Lucinda get medicines to nurse the sick?

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she gathered medicinal plants by Spoon River

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according to her epitaph in the Spoon River Anthology, why did Lucinda say she died at age ninety-six?

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she had lived long enough, that is all

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the town of Spoon River, of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, was patterned after

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the little town Edgar Lee Masters grew up in

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