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110 Cards in this Set
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Name the Author: "Green Rain"
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Dorothy Livesay
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Name the Author: "Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959"
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Irving Layton
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Name the Author:"For Jesus Christ"
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Irving Layton
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Name the Author: "Photos of a Salt Mine"
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P.K. Page
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Name the Author: "Silhouette"
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Pauline Johnson
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Name the Author: "Poem for Duncan Campbell Scott"
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Armand Ruffo
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Name the Author: "Varieties of Exile"
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Mavis Gallant
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Name the Author: "To Set Our House in Order"
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Margaret Laurence
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Name the Author: "The Window"
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Ethel Wilson
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Name the Author: "The Progress of Love"
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Alice Munro
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Name the Author: Green Grass, Running Water
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Thomas King
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Name the Author: "Lament for the Dorsets"
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Al Purdy
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Name the Author: "On the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz"
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Eli Mandel
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Name the Author: "Suzanne"
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Leonard Cohen
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Name the Author: "Everybody Knows"
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Leonard Cohen
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Name the Author: "This Is a Photograph of Me"
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Margaret Atwood
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Name the Author: "I've Tasted My Blood"
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Milton Acorn
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Name the Author: "In Addition"
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Milton Acorn
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Name the Author: "The Cinnamon Peeler"
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Michael Ondaatje
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Name the Author: "To a Sad Daughter"
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Michael Ondaatje
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Name the Author: "Warren Pryor"
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Alden Nowlan
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Name the Author: "Because I Never Learned"
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Patrick Lane
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Name the Author: "Fathers, Uncles, Old Friends of the Family"
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Lorna Crozier
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Name the Author: "Swimming Lessons"
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Rohinton Mistry
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Name the Author: "Barney's Version"
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Mordecai Richler
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What Do you place in quotes?
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Short poems; short stories
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What do you italicize?
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Books; long poems
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What do you underline?
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Books; long poems
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All exam essays should have a
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title
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type: "Silhouette"
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poem
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type: "The Window"
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short story
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type: "Green Rain"
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poem
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type: "Keine Lazarovitch: 1870-1959"
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poem
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type: "Photos of a Salt Mine"
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poem
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type: "Lament for the Dorsets"
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poem
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type: "Varieties of Exile"
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short story
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type: "To Set our House in Order"
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short story
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type: "The Progress of Love"
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short story
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type: "Suzanne"
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poem/song
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type: "Everybody Knows"
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poem
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type: "This is a Photograph of Me"
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poem
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type: "Because I Never Learned"
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poem
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type: "The Cinnamon Peeler"
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poem
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type: "To a Sad Daughter"
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poem
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type: "Swimming Lessons"
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short story
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Describe: "Silhouette"
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A Sioux chief
Alone by his tepee The buffalo are all dead |
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Point of "Silhouette"
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Native struggle, not going to make it.
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"The Window": Main character:
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Mr. Willy
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"The Window": The struggle:
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Solitary vs Social life
Religion; getting old |
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"Green Rain": About
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Narrator remembering her grandmother.
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"Keine Lazarovitch": The date:
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1870-1959
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"Keine Lazarovitch": About
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His mother dying.
She wasn't always nice. It's still terrible |
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"Photos of a Salt Mine": About
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Men look like children in the snow;
Lost innocence |
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"Lament for the Dorsets": Dorsets are
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A tribe like the Inuit
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"Lament for the Dorsets": They drove off
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The Vikings
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"Lament for the Dorsets": They died because
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The seals were gone
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"Lament for the Dorsets": They were defeated by
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small Inuit people
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"Varieties of Exile": Protagonist
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Linnet
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"Varieties of Exile": Where and when?
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Montreal; WW2
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"Varieties of Exile": Linnet doesn't have any
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friends
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"Varieties of Exile": Linnet's view on marriage:
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like grocery shopping
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"Varieties of Exile": Is all about
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Exile
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"Varieties of Exile": Linnet did what with the stories? Why?
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Burnt them; the authors were no longer foreign
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"Varieties of Exile": She resented her husband for
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being her guardian
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"Varieties of Exile": The man in uniform's name:
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Frank Cairns
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"To Set Our House in Order": Protagonist:
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Vannessa
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"To Set Our House in Order": Everyone tries to please:
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Grandmother MacLeod
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"To Set Our House in Order": Her father's name:
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Ewen
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"To Set Our House in Order": Her mother's name:
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Beth
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"To Set Our House in Order": The uncouth aunt:
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Edna Connor
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"To Set Our House in Order": The dead brother, and baby's name.
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Roderick
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"The Progress of Love": Protagonist:
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Fame
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"The Progress of Love": Hears about what from her father:
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Her mother's death
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"The Progress of Love": What was Fame's childhood like?
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poverty and hard work
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"The Progress of Love": Her mother grew up
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really religious
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"The Progress of Love": Her mother's relationship
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was bad; blamed on her father
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"The Progress of Love": Main point
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upbringing vs perception
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"The Progress of Love": Mother's final decision
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Burning $3000 will rather than accepting anything from her father
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"The Progress of Love": Mother's name:
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Marietta
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"The Progress of Love": Fame's family situation
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divorced with 2 sons
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"Suzanne" the woman is compared to
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Jesus
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"Suzanne" recurring theme
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water
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"Everybody Knows": Is about the
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cheapening of everything
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In "Everybody Knows": No one
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can be trusted
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"This is a Photograph of Me": The speaker:
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is dead
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"This is a Photograph of Me": is about
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A picture taken after the narrator died
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"This is a Photograph of Me": It happened
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in the lake
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"This is a Photograph of Me": She claims
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that you can see her if you look close enough.
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"The Cinnamon Peeler": He wants
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To be a Cinnamon Peeler
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"The Cinnamon Peeler": If he was a Cinnamon Peeler
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he could leave his smell on her all the time
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"To a Sad Daughter": about
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A teenage girl tomboy
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"To a Sad Daughter": The narrator
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wants her to achieve the best
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"Swimming Lessons": takes place
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in Bombay
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"Swimming Lessons": The narrator doesn't
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like water
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"Swimming Lessons": The narrator is preoccupied with
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sex
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"Swimming Lessons": His parents, metafictionally,
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Discuss the work he is currently writing.
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"Warren Pryor": is about
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A guy whose parents sacrifice a lot for for him to go to college
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"Warren Pryor": He felt
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Like he didn't want to work at the bank as an educated man
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"Warren Pryor": He would rather
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work on the farm
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"Warren Pryor": He does what he does because
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His parents gave up so much for him
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"Fathers, Uncles, Old Friends of the Family": Is about
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Child sexual abuse
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"Fathers, Uncles, Old Friends of the Family": Her friend's
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father did it to the friend.
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"Fathers, Uncles, Old Friends of the Family": When she visits, years later
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He grabs her breast
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"Fathers, Uncles, Old Friends of the Family": May be more controvercial poem because
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She gives some sympathy to the abusers
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"I've Tasted My Blood": Is about
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violence in childhood
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Fill in the blanks: __ the __ Aniversary __ the __ of __
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On, 25th,of, Liberation, Auschwitz
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"On the 25th Aniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz": Uses
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staggered lines to enhance the awfulness
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"On the 25th Aniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz": Imagery of
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Bodies melting
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"Poem for Duncan Campbell Scott"
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He always talks but never listens; he's always writing in his notebook
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"In Addition" deals with
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Acorn's poverty
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