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the use of words that are harsh or dissonant in sounds.

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Cacophony

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a speaker or writer’s directly addressing an absent person, abstraction or inanimate object

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Apostrophe

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a type of comparison that draws a striking parallel btween two dissimilar thing

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Conceit

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the use of words whose sounds are pleasant and musical to the ear

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Euphony

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an artful deviation from literal speech or normal word oder

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Figurative language

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descriptive words or phrases that appeal to the sense perceptions in order to create an impression

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Imagery

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in a restrictive definition is the stated or implied equivalence of two things:

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Metaphor

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expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself. (lands or kingdom belonging to the crown)

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Metonymy

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seeming contradiction

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Paradox

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similarity in the structure of two or more phrases; clauses or sentences.

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Parallelism

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gives human characteristics to objects, ideas, abstractions or animals.

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Personification

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a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but different in meaning.

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Pun

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the act of creating paterns by repeating not only sounds but also worlds, lines, meter or syntax.

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Repetition

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type of metaphor using words: like, as, as if.

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Simile

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expression in which a part stands for the whole. (referring to 50 sails as 50 ships)

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Synecdoche

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a recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.

The core mark of great writing is theme.

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Theme

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This selection is literature of information and not necessarily the type that best uses ____________ ___________

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imaginative comparison

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The nightingale and the glow warm illustrates

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Allegory

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Possible themes for mother to son

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Life is sometimes tough
Work hard
Do not give up

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Although life is difficult a person should not quit. The speaker compares life to a stairway that one must journey up. Hers is not a crystal stair like others, but rather one that is old, in bad repair, and even dark at times. In other words rather than easy, her life has been full of hardship both material and emotional. Yet she has not given up, and naither should her heart.

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Mother to son

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Waller uses the metaphors: comparing the body to a dilapidated cottage, and comparing death to the crossing of a river

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The souls dark cottage

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The lamb the light the world are used as metaphors for Christ in John 1
Understanding the bibles literary features in very important when studying gods world

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The windows

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the repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds (clasps, crag, crooked)

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Alliteration

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a rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meaning

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Antithesis

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the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammatical units

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Anaphora

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the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words (clasps, crag, hands)

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Assonance

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a pause in borne middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation

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Caesura

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two parallel phrases, clauses or sentences in which the second reverses the elements of the first, inverting the parallel structure,

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Chiasmus

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a poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation set the end of the first verse line

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Enjambment

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word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently

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Eye Rhyme

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poetry with no set meter or rhyme

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Free Verse

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rhyme that occurs between words with a single line of poetry

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Internal Rhyme

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agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds.

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Perfect Rhyme

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a rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds (star and door)

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Slant Rhyme

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rhyme that occurs at the end of corresponding lines of poetry

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End Rhyme

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the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

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Meter ex.

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To describe a particular meter of a poem one must determine the poetic feet and consider the length of the line.
Iambic Pentameter - is the most common in English. Meter can produce various moods, depending on the combinations of poetic foot and line length

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Most techniques for organizing sound and syntax are based on ____________ & ____________

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Parallelism and Repetition

38
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The effect or organized sound and syntax:

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To clarify ideas in the text
To set a particular mood in the work
To emphasize imports to parts of the text

39
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the use of words that sound like what they mean “clangity clang” (hiss, buzz)

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Onomatopoeia

40
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the specific combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout the poem’s lines

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Poetic Feet

41
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the set of public speaking

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Rhetoric

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(short answer) a question asked not to receive information but to achieve an effect.

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Rhetorical Question

43
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two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel.

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Rhyme

44
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the process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem

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Scansion

45
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lines of poetry that end with a natural phase indicated by punctuation

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End Stopped lines

46
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in poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is unstressed

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Feminine Ending

47
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in poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is stressed

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Masculine Ending

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___________ of sound, syntax, and thought is more common in poetry than in prose

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Patterned repetition

49
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__________ most often directly affects the mood of a poem.

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Meter

50
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Theme of on the grasshopper and the cricket

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that poetry provides relief from life’s hardships

51
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Keats used _______________ to add to the natural flow of his lines

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enjambment

52
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Describe the meter for march for a one man band

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It is irregular meter; it shifts randomly between iambic and anapestic. It throws off the reader’s rhythm and adds to the awkward chaos of the one man band’s performance.

53
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Crane uses sound devices to affect the initial mood of the story. He uses descriptions of the battle lines, the sound intensifies the seriousness and significance to the scene. His use of cacophony brings the battle to life with intensity and danger.

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Grey sleeve

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In winter ocean What impressions of the ocean do the rhythm and sounds give readers?

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The sounds create a solid and choppy sound that evokes a kind of blustering energy. Heavy vowels such as the short u and the long a combine with marked consonants to create an almost cacophonous roughness.
Not an example of cacophonous, it’s not an example of euphony

55
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the use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected to happen and what actually happens

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Irony

56
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Irony underscores what

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Irony underscores the paradoxical, works of implied meaning and violates the reader’s expectation.) irony is used often because it is understood and gets the point cross without affenpinscher the reader.

57
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What is the irony in the golf links so close the mill

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There is an ironic reversal of roles: children overworked in factories can look out the factory window and watch men playing golf. The author wants the reader to be indignant (angry) at the factory owners who take such advantage of children

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Scylla toothless is an example of what

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Example of verbal irony.

59
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The general tone in the day the dam broke is what

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The general tone of the essay is best described as humorous.

60
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Tthe day the dam broke is an example if what

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Example of dramatic irony.

61
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In The poem earth is an example of _________

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sarcasm.

62
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At the aquarium The poem is an example of __________________

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situational irony

63
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How does Screwtape want people to define “real life”? What does he have to gain from this definition?

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Screwtape wants people to think of real life as the things that they can preceive through their senses. If he can keep humans thinking about that, they will never consider external spiritual realities and listen to God.

64
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Screwtape Letters is an example of _________

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satire

65
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a reference within a work to something else, usually history or another artistic work.

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Allusions

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Allusion ex.

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Allusions often overlap with imaginative comparisons, they contribute to a work’s mood or tone, and they compress ideas or emotions into a short statement.
Allusions are based primarily on shared knowledge
Allusions sometimes maker of symbols

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the mood or emotion that the reader is supposed to share with the characters.

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Atmosphere

68
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the opposition of two or more characters or forces; the three main conflicts are man against a greater force, man against man, and man against himself.

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Conflict

69
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a person, place, thing, or idea within a narrative or poem that means something in addition to itself.

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Symbol

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Symbol ex.

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Literary symbols are not always specific to one culture, they are sometimes specific to a particular work, and they can connect several themes in a work
Objects or persons in an allegory do not always qualify as symbols.
Symbols in a literary work are usually deeply connected to the world’s themes

71
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the attitude of an author toward his or her subject.

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Tone

72
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In cupids arrow who was kitty compared to and why

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Kitty was compared to the mythological goddess Diana of Tara-Devi because they were both skilled at archery. She was a maiden and because of her beauty.

73
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the person created by the author to tell the story, affecting the way a story is told.

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Persona

74
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How can you tell that the persona of the story is not really Kipling?

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Kipling alludes to the myth of the judgement of Paris.

75
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Theme/thesis of outta my way grandpa

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: People should compete for their own benefit rather than solely to win

76
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What overall atmosphere does O’Neill’s allusions help create in the essay? How does this help reinforce his theme?

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His essay is humorous… this allows him or satchel the readers’ attention in a nonconfrontational way. It is then easier for them to admit the truth of his theme and apply it to their lives.

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In the progress of posey what is The Biblical Allusion

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: Moses smiting the rock to bring forth water.

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In the progress of posey The “fount” symbolizes ________________

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artistic inspiration

79
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In the progress of posey The atmosphere is best described as :

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fatalistic

80
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maggie and milly and molly and may what is the theme

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Theme: “For whatever we lose like a you or a me, it’s always ourselves we find in the sea” His theme is that our choice and perspective on life reveal something of our character. Each girl finds something and her reaction reveals something about her.

81
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In maggie and milly and molly and may what are the symbols

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The Symbols are: a shell, a starfish, a crab, and a stone

82
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In afterglow The primary symbol is a _________

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sunset

83
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In the listeners The atmosphere is one of ____________

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mystery

84
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In the listeners The Traveler symbolizes ___________

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anyone

85
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What is the primary conflict in the masque of the red death

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The primary conflict is external (Prospero and company vs. Red Death). Just as Prospero and his followers cannot escape the Red Death, so humans inevitably succumb to death.

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What is the overall tone in the masque of the red death

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The overall tone does not support a biblical worldview. This shows how the resulution conveys the theme of the story

87
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In a piece of chalk Chesterton uses the color white to symbolize

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virtue

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