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20 Cards in this Set
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What was the setting? |
near Boston, Massachusetts in 1727
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Which of the characters was greedy, miserly, foolish, and hypocrite?
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Tom Walker
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Which of the characters was greedy, strong, and violent?
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Mrs. Walker
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Which of the characters was persuasive, powerful, cruel, evil, and sneaky?
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the Devil
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What was the main CONFLICT in the story?
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man vs man
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What was the CLIMAX?
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when the Devil took Tom in a thunderstorm
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What did the thunderstorm foreshadow?
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Tom's death
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What was the POINT of VIEW from which this story was told?
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3rd person omniscient
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What was an example of IRONY in the story?
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Verbal - When Tom call on the Devil to take him - he didn't actually expect it to happen.
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What was an example of IRONY in the story?
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Tom's wife expected to cheat the Devil, but he killed her.
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What did the heart and liver symbolize in the story?
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love and purity
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What did the trees and firewood symbolize in the story?
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lost souls (people who have sold their souls to the Devil)
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What did the swamp symbolize in the story?
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life
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What did the Kidd's treasure symbolize in the story?
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the Devil's temptation
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3 ways that Tom knew he had met the devil
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the devil appeared and disappeared SUDDENLY; the mark on his forehead; his wife told him that Crowninshield had just died
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Two universal characteristics of the Devil
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red eyes and cloven hoofs
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What style of writing was used in "The Devil and Tom Walker"?
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Romanticism
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Romanticism attempts to show life how?
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ideally as we might imagine it to be or think it should be?
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Romanticism essentially upholds __________ over reason and fact.
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feeling and the imagination
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The opposite of Romanticism is _____.
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Realism
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