Fall Final Flashcards
(274 cards)
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Deep thoughts, reflections
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Cogitations
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Imitation, copying in attempt to equal or surpass someone
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Emulation
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Eagerly, happily
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Fain
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Mourned, grieved
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Lamented
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To reject
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Spurn
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An absolute ruler, usually oppressive
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Tyrant
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Honorable, Noble in action
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Valiant
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Face, appearance,(also ghost or apparition)
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Visage
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Easygoing, like able
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Affable
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Unable to have children
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Barren
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To beg
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Beseech
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Scolded, corrected
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Chidden
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Inactive, lazy
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Idle
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Filled with strong emotion
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Infused
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About to occur
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Imminent
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Win
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Prevail
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People with significant talent or ability
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Prodigies
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What is a monologue
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Long speech by one person
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Aside
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Lines spoken by character directly to audience
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Tragic hero
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Protagonist with flaw that eventually leads to downfall
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Character foil
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Character who is nearly opposite of another character
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Soliloquy
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Thighs spoken aloud by character when alone or believes he is alone
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Et tu brute
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Julius Caesar
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Epicurean
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Cassius
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Exiled because he was against Caesar
Marullus and flavius
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Stoic
Brutus
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Beware the ides of March
Soothsayer
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Married to Brutus
Portia
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Dreams that Caesar is murdered, married to Caesar
Calpurnia
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Tries to warn Caesar with a letter
artemidorus
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I thrice presented him with a kingly crown
| Which thrive he did refuse, was this ambition
Antony
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The last to stab Caesar
Brutus
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Caesars right hand man
Antony
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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more
Brutus
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Convinces Caesar to go to the Capitol to meet with the senate
Decius Brutus
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Into what dangers would you lead me Cassius
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me
Brutus
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What type of play is Julius Caesar
Tragedy
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What was the highest level of school Shakespeare received
Grammar school
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What did Shakespeare leave his wife in his will
His second best bed
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Where was the globe theater
London
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What is the globe theater
The theater where most of Shakespeare's plays were presented, located
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Who did Julius Caesar think is his most loyal companion
Brutus
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What did the festival of the Lupercal celebrate
Fertility
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What does Caesar do when he is offered the crown?
Refuse it thrice, then faints
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Which qualities of Julius Caesar does Antony use to disprove Brutus's argument of Caesar's being too ambitious
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Faithful
Just
Brought captives and spoil home
Wept with poor
Refused crown
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What did Antony show the crowd during his speech that helped to win their favor
Bloody cloak and the will
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Brutus was visited by the ghost of whom?
Caesar
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Which characters killed themselves or had people kill them?
Cassius, Brutus, Portia, titinius
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How was Caesar physically challenged
Epilepsy
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Who had his birthday in the play
Cassius
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Who spares Antonys life
Brutus
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Octavius and Antony form a triumvirate with whom
Lepidus
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Who said that the conspirators didn't need an oath because they were bound by their cause and not empty words
Brutus
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What fatal mistake did Brutus make
Underestimated Antony by letting him live and talk
| He believed Cassius
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Why did Brutus view Caesars assassination as necessary
Too ambitious, tyrant
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What was one of Caesars fatal flaws
Trusting
| Arrogant ambition
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Who tries to warn Caesar
Artemidorus
Soothsayer
Calpurnia
Priests
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Brutus charged Cassius with what
Bribery
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According to Antony who is the noblest Roman of them all
Brutus
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Inflexibility versus compromise
Cassius and Brutus
| Opinions on calpurnia's dream
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Weak people can be manipulated
People of Rome
| Brutus manipulated by Cassius
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Public self versus private self
Antony
| Brutus
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Misinterpretations and misreadings
Calpurnia's dream
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Rhetoric and power
Speeches
| Decius
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One man's hero is another man's enemy
Caesar
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Fate versus free will
The ides of March
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Too much ambition can be dangerous
Caesar
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Look at timeline
Did you get it?
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What do modern historians say King Arthur was
Celtic war chief
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Which people began the storytelling of King Arthur
The celts
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Who made the King Arthur legend forever English
Sir Thomas Malory
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Where did sir Thomas Malory write his King Arthur stories
Prison
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Middle age social classes
Nobility
Clergy
Peasants
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Reasons the King Arthur legend has endured so long
Exciting story
Camelot is the capital of dreams
Not what kings are, but what kings could be
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What kind of hero is superior in all respects to other men and his environment
Mythic
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Why a hero or legend endures across generations
Real and universal
Larger than life
Part of cultural heritage
Stories through generations
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Chivalry
Code of behavior
| Demanded that the knight be loyal to God first King second, as ferocious in the battle field as gentle off
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Why is everyone going to London
Jousting tournament
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Who gives Arthur assistance in pulling out the sword
Merlyns animals
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What does Kay do when he realizes that Arthur has pulled out the famous sword in the stone
Claims it and Takes it to his dad
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Does Arthur eventually come to the conclusion that might cannot be used for right, violence always breeds more violence
No
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What does Arthur intend to do with the rebels after he conquers them
Turn them into Knights
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Who is the author of Arthur becomes King
T.h. White
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Arthur's nickname
Wart
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Arthur's guardian
Sir Ector
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Sir Kay
Foster brother/ector's son
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Arthur's sword
Excalibur
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Arthur's kingdom
Camelot
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Arthur's tutor
Merlyn
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Where does Arthur find the sword
The stone
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What does Arthur think about might
Should be used for right
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Why does Lancelot leave Camelot
Adventure
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What happens when Lancelot sleeps
Sirs lyonel and ector get defeated by sir tarquine
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Who discovers Lancelot as he sleeps under the tree
Morgan le Fay and her queens
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What does he agree to do in return for his freedom
Fight for bagdemagus
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Why has sir tarquine sworn revenge against Lancelot
Lancelot killed his brother
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Who said it was he who slew my brother and it is because of him that I have killed a hundred Knights, and maimed as many more, apart from the sixty four I still hold prisoner
Tarquine
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Who said I will cast a spell over him so that he remains asleep while we take him to my castle and make him our prisoner
Morgan le Fay
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Who said understand that I choose none of you, lewd sorceress that you are, rather will I die in this cell. But were I free, I would take pleasure in proving it against any who would champion you that Queen gwynevere is the finest lady of this land
Lancelot
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Evil sorceress
Morgan le Fay
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Good King, was defeated by Knights of the round table in a tournament
Bagdemagus
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Captured by an evil knight
Lyonel and ector
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Has a daughter who helps him
Bagdemagus
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Evil knight
Tarquine
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Is captured by an evil sorceress
Lancelot
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At the beginning of the story, what does Lancelot set out to do
Find adventure
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Who captures Lancelot and how
Falls asleep, Morgan le fays Magic
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What did the evil Knight do to the Knights that he captured
Stripped and beat them and threw them in a dungeon
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What does Lancelot agree to do in exchange for his freedom
Fight for bagdemagus
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Enlarged
Augmented
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Why does the evil knight hate Sir Lancelot?
Lancelot killed his brother
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What happens to the evil knight at the end of the story?
Lancelot beheads him
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Who is the author of Lancelot
Sir Thomas Malory
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How many times does Bedivere fail to complete his task?
2
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Why does Bedivere fail at his task?
the sword is beautiful
greed
he wants to keep it as a tribute to King Arthur
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Which of Bedivere's actions does Arthur identify as being particularly shameful?
lying
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After Bedivere returns a second time, what does Arthur do?
get mad, threaten him, and send him away again
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Where is Arthur going at the end?
Avilion
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What is the significant image in the last line?
sunrise
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Who wrote "The Passing of Arthur"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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In TPCASTT, what the author says about the subject is the
theme
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When a sentence carries on to the next line of the poem, sometimes changing the meaning
enjambment
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In "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" the author uses a lot of what literary device?
imagery
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in "She Sweeps with many colors brooms" the speaker compares sweeping to
sunset
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in "Big Wind" the speaker compares the greenhouse in the storm to
a ship
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Cavalry Crossing a Ford paints what kind of picture of war
peaceful
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what are you supposed to write in the attitude section of TPCASTT
speaker, author, and subject attitude
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how does summer remembered speak about childhood summer
fun and chaotic with a lot of alliteration and onomatopoeia, but ends sadly
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What are the African-American women in Women fighting for
education for their children
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What is dreams about?
how dreams can affect your life
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The Dreams Died devastatingly is
alliteration
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The Creation is an example of what kind of poem
narrative
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In me she has drowned a young girl and in me an old woman rises toward her day after day like a terrible fish
Mirror
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He's only flirting, crowd him crowd him, delicate, delicate, delicate, delicate, now
basestealer
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his hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench. It makes no difference to the lug wrench though
ex-basketball player
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there would be more than ocean water broken before God's last put out the light was spoken
once by the pacific
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but I was going to say when truth broken in with all her matter of face about the ice storm
birches
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you were the river current carrying the roaring notes you were the caravan master at the reigns
my mother pieced quilts
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and a blue true dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes
i thank you God for most this amazing
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Beat beat drums
Walt Whitman
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Big Wind
Theodore Roethke
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Birches
robert frost
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cavalry crossing a ford
walt whitman
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dreams
langston hughes
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ex-basketball player
john updike
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i thank you God for most this amazing
e.e. cummings
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mirror
sylvia plath
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once by the pacific
robert frost
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she sweeps with many colored brooms
emily dickinson
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summer remembered
isabella gardner
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the base stealer
robert francis
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the creation
james weldon johnson
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the lake isle of innisfree
william butler yeats
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two bodies
octavio paz
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women
alice walker
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the metaphors in two bodies
a relationship
| two waves, 2 stones, 2 knives, 2 shooting stars
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4 examples of poem shifts
stanzas, tone, subject, point of view
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where was John Steinbeck born
Salinas, CA
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Steinbeck's movement
naturalism
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what is naturalism
the author does not hide the hardships and ugliness of human existence, not afraid to explore violence and the lives of America's lower class
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where does the Pearl take place
La Paz, Mexico
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what kind of novel is the pearl
parable
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who is oppressing the Native Americans
Spanish Mexicans
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Why does the doctor refuse to see Coyotito in the beginning
he is poor and Native American
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what is the significance of the songs Kino hears?
his ancestors sing, dictate his emotions
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What did Kino dream of when he first found the pearl?
marrying Juana, a rifle, clothes, education for Coyotito
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How did the doctor cruelly manipulate Kino and Juana into his treatment of Coyotito?
he poisoned him and then healed him
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what do Kino and Juana compare finding the pearl to
Coyotito's birth
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What happens to Kino's boat
someone puts a hole in it
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What song provided Kino strength before attacking the trackers
the song of the family
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greed as a destructive force
the pearl, the trackers, Kino murdering
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the roles of fate in shaping human lives
finding the pearl, stuck in your birth position, scorpion bite
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colonial society's oppression of native cultures
not serving Coyotito, no education
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men and women's roles in society
Juana yields to Kino and he beats her when she steps out
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the importance of family
Kino tries to save his family
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Poverty versus wealth
Kino has nothing, the doctor is fat and lazy
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the pearl
greed, success, hopelessness, human vice
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the canoe
family, manhood, heritage, stability, provision
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greed, eagerness for riches
avarice
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having a kindly disposition
benign
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skillful in physical movements, especially of the hands
deft
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something that derogates or casts in a bad light
disparagement
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important to the topic at hand
germane
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having a harsh, throaty sound
guttural
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needy, very poor
indigent
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wise
judicious
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the quality or state of being drowsy, apathetic activity
lethargy
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softly shining, translucent, clear
lucent
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dangerous to health, characterized by progressive growth, especially a tumor
malignant
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moved to or showing sudden impatient irritation
petulant
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in a way that sounds sad and mournful
plaintively
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having rugged physical strength, hardened to fatigue or hardships
stalwart
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bringing under control
subjugation
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humble, imploring
suppliant
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right before Kino finds the pearl, what song does he hear?
the song of the pearl
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what does Kino do for a living
a pearl diver
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How are Apolonia and Juana related
sisters in law
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Where are Kino and Juana's ancestors from
native
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What else did John Steinbeck write?
Cup of Gold, The Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown, Tortilla Flat, Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, The Long Valley, The Grapes of Wrath, Sea of Cortez, Cannery Row, Burning Bright, East of Eden, The Winter of our Discontent, Travels with Charley, Red Pony
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when is the best time for demons to exploit to get readers hooked on sex and alcohol
trough periods
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Who is the originator of pleasure
God
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What is the first step of exploiting the truth
keep knowledge out of his mind
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how does Screwtape describe the married couple that the patient has become friends with?
rich, smart, superficially intellectual, brightly skeptical about everything in the world
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what does Screwtape say the patient will call people who warn him against worldly vanities, choice of friends, and the value of time?
puritans
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what are the causes of human laughter
joy, fun, the joke proper, flippancy
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which humor is most dangerous to humans
flippancy
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what is the point at which time touches eternity
present
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which is least like eternity
future
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what is screw tapes' advice if a man can't be cured of church going
church hopping
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what are party churches
cliquey churches who split up and hate each other for the little unessentials
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of which sin have the demons been able to deaden the human conscience in Europe
gluttony
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explain the patient's mother's version of gluttony
delicacy - all I want - everything has to be perfect
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what should the patient feel ownership over
time
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why doesn't Screwtape like the woman with whom the patient is in a relationship?
she is a good Christian and a good influence on him
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What happened to Screwtape as he was furiously writing about the woman
he turned into a centipede
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Now that the patient is dating this girl, what else is happening
he is around more Christians and his faith is growing because of it
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How does Screwtape suggest corrupting the patient's Christianity (with what view of Jesus)
historical view, opinion based, praying to a merely physical Jesus
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what is the patient's girlfriend's vice
thinking people who don't agree with her are ridiculous
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What does Screwtape say is the strongest and most beautiful of the vices
spiritual pride
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who plays the trumpet and is Gene's closest competition academically
Chet Douglass
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Who supervises the dorm in an authoritarian manner during the regular sessions
Mr. Ludsbury
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Who manages crew but is systematically disliked by most of the boys
Cliff Quackenbush
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who trains Gene for the Olympics
Finny
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Who is the Yellow Peril
Brinker Hadley
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Who gives the key testimony in the investigation of the accident
Elwin "Leper" Lepellier
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What is the price for membership in the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session
jumping off the tree into the Devon
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When does Gene first confess to Finny that he caused the accident on the tree
Finny's house
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What causes Gene to finally admit to the reality of the war
Leper going crazy, 2 people not being able to fight, his injury, Gene almost enlisting
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how do we know that Finny really was interested in the war all along
letters to the war office
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where is the official investigation of Finny's accident held
assembly hall
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what causes Finny's death
marrow from his bone got into his bloodstream and stopped his heart during surgery - setting his leg
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What is Gene's chief war memory?
walking around the country alone
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did john knowles base this novel on his own experiences at Exeter Academy
yes
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Finny wears what color shirt as his emblem for the war
pink
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Describe Finny's concept of authority
necessary evil, make friends, meant to be broken
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what does Finny do when he breaks the swimming record
didn't let Gene tell anyone
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does Gene believe Finny purposely tried to wreck his academics
yes
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what does Finny tell Gene at the beach
you are my best friend
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what does Brinker try to encourage Gene to do
enlist
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in the Butt Room, what is Gene charged with
killing Finny to have the room to himself
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because he can't play sports, what does Finny want Gene to do
play for him and train for the Olympics
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finny says the war has been made up by
fat old men defending their jobs
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what is the inscription over the door to the court room
here boys come to be made men
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when Gene first visits the infirmary after the investigation, how does Finny respond
angrily
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at finny's funeral, how does gene feel?
doesn't cry because he feels like it is his own funeral
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after the peaceful interlude at Devon, when does Gene face his first experience with conflict
defeating his inner struggle
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according to gene, what is the cause of wars
ignorance in the human heart
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things Finny is linked to
fun, summer, innocence, friendship
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why does finny refuse to believe the truth about the accident
he loves Gene and can't see evil in people
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why does Finny love sports
he is good at them, no one wins, the only pure good
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last conversation between Gene and Finny
they decided it was a blind impulse, not an act of hate
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where did George and Lennie flee from
Weed, California
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What excites Lennie most about his dream life with George
rabbits
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why is Candy unable to imagine getting rid of the dog
he had it a long time and loved it
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why does Curley wear a vaseline filled glove
keep his hand soft for his wife
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why does Carlson insist on shooting candy's dog
it is old and stinky
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Whit brings a magazine with what? from a man that used to work there
a letter praising the publication
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what is Old Susy's place
brothel
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who discovers Curley's dead wife
candy
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what does curley wear to set himself apart from the other men
high heeled boots
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who cared for Lennie before George
Aunt Clara
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When is Of Mice and Men set
1930s
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what does Curley's wife offer to let Lennie touch
her hair
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Whom does Candy look to for advice before allowing Carlson to shoot his dog
Slim
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How does Steinbeck foreshadow the death of Curley's wife
dead animals
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how did Crooks get his name
crooked back
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before George meets Lennie in the woods in the final scene, whose gun did he take
Carlson's
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what does George say to Lennie before shooting him
talks about their relationship and their farm
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when Lennie drops down next to the pool of water as the story opens, what is George's advice to him
not to drink too much
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who is the only man to understand the bond between Lennie and George
Slim
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after killing curler's wife, who appears to lennie to chastise his behavior
Aunt Clara, giant rabbit
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who do Lennie and George allow to live on their farm
Candy
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why doesn't crooks allow lennie to enter his room at first
skin color
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what did curley's wife want to be
a movie star
