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39 Cards in this Set
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Themes in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime
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-loss
-truth -relationships -disability -coming of age |
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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home-Examples of language
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-model T is a room with the lock inside
-i have never seen one fly, but perch on the hand |
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What saved the marriage in "Words"
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-when Ian spoke Isabelle's name for the first time after years of silence
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Erotic imagery in "The Cinnamon Peeler"
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-crease that cuts your back
-upper thigh |
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What is the symbol in "The Cinnamon Peeler"
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-cinnamon and it symbolizes sexual desire
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Examples of comparison to animals in "THe Horse Dealer's Daughter"
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fixity of her face like a bulldog
-marry and go into harness |
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Summary of Welcome to Hiroshima
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-nuclear bomb dropped and destroyed the city and now after years how the city is rebuilt but still shows signs of the bombing
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Metaphors and Similes in Dulce et Decorum Est
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-men marched asleep
-drunk with fatigue -his hanging face like a devil's sick of sin |
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Broad analogy in The Glass Mountain
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-mountain resembles life and the climb is the hardships and struggle it takes to reach the top
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Irony in The Glass Mountain
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-that it is written like a fairy tale but it has a sad ending instead of a happy one
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Themes in London
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-everyone fears the same
-rebellion -imprisonment -oppression |
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What is the message in London
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-society
-everyone fears |
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Themes in Sur
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-man vs. women
-need for adventure -struggle -friendship |
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The lesson in Sign for my Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
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the lesson is sacrifice for the greater good
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Examples of the theme destruction of masculine in stones
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-destroyed his mind
-was alot smaller after war |
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What is the symbolism of stones in "Stones"
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-the stones at Dieppe were large and hard and his fathers ashes were pummeled stone
-father left a rock and came back a stone |
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What is the message in Dead Man's Path
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-to be considerate of past traditons
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Main theme in Telephone Conversation
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-ignorance of racism
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Themes in Coyote Columbus Story
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-playing fair
-greed -respecting others |
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What is GIrl about?
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-the struggles a girl goes through in life to become successful
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London
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-imprisonment
-disease -war -cant get away from it |
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Araby
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-growing up from childhood to adulthood and how he starts liking his friends sister
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What does Flora represent in Boys and Girls
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-freedom and the narrators freedom
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Themes in Boys and Girls
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-imprisonment
-adolescent -acceptance -growing up |
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Themes in Old Man WIth Enormous Wings
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-greed
-death -people are attracted to imperfections |
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What is the symbol in the story the old man with enormous wings
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-the angel and it symbolizes difference
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Happy Endings
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-all endings lead to death
-fate |
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Moral lesson in the Birthmark
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-dont play god
-no such thing as perfection |
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themes in the birthmark
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-always a catch to perfection
-science vs nature -playing god -mortality |
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What is the symbol in The Birthmark
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-the tiny hand on Georgianna's face and it symbolizes imperfection and how life can still be beautiful even with a flaw
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Metaphor in 35/10
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-her full purse of eggs round and firm as hard boiled yolks is about to snap its clasp
-her daughter is flower and shes a cactus |
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themes in design
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-mortality
-fate -art and nature |
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What is Elergy in Stone about?
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-going to see Vimy Ridge memorial
-Canada one but at what cost -not glorified which is good cause than its not celebrated |
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Anecdote in a Jar
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-human contact is destroying nature
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symbol in anecdote of jar
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-the jar and it symbolizes manhood within nature
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moral of anecdote of jar
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-human domination is ruining nature
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Wars in A Far Cry from Africa
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-WWII
-Spanish War -Kenya Tribe vs British |
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Themes in Cathedral
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-disability
-acceptance -education |
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Deeper significance of blindness in Cathedral
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-being blind towards the world
-blind man could see more than the narrator |
