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What is Doc Martindale’s first clue as to who killed the father and brother?

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Eli who isn’t generous donated land far away from where the trees were gonna be planted?

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Who killed Doc Martindale’s father and brother?

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Eli Gable

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What started the Day the Dam Broke?

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A man running

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Who is the enemy in screwtape letters?

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God

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Who is our father below in screwtape letters?

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Satan

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What important event happened in screwtape letters that angered the narrator?

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The patient became a Christian

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What word means mock praise?

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sarcasm

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What was intentional exaggeration?

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hyperbole

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What is sustained verbal irony; two layers of meaning (one literal and implied throughout the entire work)?

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Structural Irony

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What is a contrast between what is reasonable to expect and what actually happens?

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Situational Irony

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What is corrective ridicule in literature?

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satire

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What is when a reader or audience is aware of a plot development of which the characters in the story are unaware?

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dramatic irony

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What is the use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated or a contradiction in what is expected?

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irony

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What is representing something as less important than it actually is for rhetorical effect?

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understatement

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What is a contrast between the literal interpretation of a statement and its implied meaning with the implied level carrying the author’s real meaning?

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verbal irony

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Who wrote the “Day the Dam Broke”?

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James Thurber

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Who wrote “Chronicles of Narnia”?

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C.S. Lewis

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Who wrote “Screwtape letters”?

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C.S.Lewis

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What is the attitude of the author towards his or her subject?

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tone

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What is the opposition of two or more forces in a work?

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Conflict

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

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atmosphere

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What is a reference to a person, place, thing or idea outside of the work itself?

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allusion

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What is a conflict that occurs between a character and a outside force?

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External conflict

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Who wrote cupids arrows?
Rudyard Kipling
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Who wrote the masque of the Red death?
Edger Allan Poe
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Who wrote a piece of chalk?
G.K. Chesterton
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In what country is cupid arrows set in?
India
29
In the progress of posey, the author divides his poem into what three stages of life?
youth, maturity, adult
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What does the red death symbolize?
Death
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Name a color and what it symbolizes
Black and death
32
What piece of furniture is significant in the last room?
The ebony clock
33
What is the reason for the man coming to the place in the listeners?
it doesn't say but he wants to fulfill a promise
34
What is the most common kind of fable>
Beast fable
35
What is one of the differences between a fable and a fairy tale?
Fairy tales use magic or the supernatural
36
What is the moral of the ant and the grasshopper?
Work hard for what you want
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What is the moral of the tortoise and the osprey?
Be content with what you have
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What is the reward for the younger brother?
pumpkin seeds that grow pumpkins with 3 treasures
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In Pandora what admonition is the bride given in regard her wedding dowry?
to not open the chest
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What is the last sprite to escape?
hope
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What are the 2 types of Epics?
Literary and traditional
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What are 2 characteristics of content for an epic?
Larger then life and hero experiences a battle
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What does Achilles do to Hectors body to disgrace it?
He drags his body
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What is a culture's explanation of how the world came to be as it is?
mythology
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What are characters in which the reader cannot identify?
unsympathetic character
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what is a cultures general beliefs,customs, and stories passed along by word of mouth?
folklore
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what is a stock phrase that can be inserted to describe a particular person or thing that recurs in a poem?
Homeric Epithets
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What is characters in which the reader identifies or for whom the reader finds favorable feelings for?
sympathetic character
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what are stories that explain specific aspects of life or the natural world, usually in terms of supernatural forces or beings?
myths
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what are extended similes?
epic similes
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what are fictional stories set in an indefinite time and place and containing a element of the fantastic or magical?
fairytale
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what are long stylized narrative poems celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero of legend?
epics
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what is a short tale, usually anonymous, passed along by word of mouth?
folktales
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what are brief fanciful stories that present a moral to teach?
fable
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what are 2 of the 4 characteristics of form for an epic
long, grand style, and in media res
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what event started the trojan war
the abduction of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy
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in the lion makers what do the 3 learned friends decide to do along the way?
reassemble a lion's skeleton and bring it back to life
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in the lion makers after warning his friends what does the 4th man who lacks learning decide to do?
climb a tree to escape the danger
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in the tortoise and the osprey how can this story be considerd a myth as well as a fable?
it offers a moral lesson and uses personified animals to convey it. However, the story also explains the origins of turtle shell patterns, a mythical explanation for a natural phenomenon
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what is the pumpkin seeds story categorized as?
Fairy tale
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Who was the Roman author who wrote "Pyramus and thisbe"?
Ovid
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Who was thought to be a Greek slave who lived during the 6th century BC and wrote the ant and grasshopper?
Aesop
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Who was thought to be a blind Greek poet who lived during the 8th century BC and wrote the Illiad?
Homer

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