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72 Cards in this Set
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What is an example of personification in A Separate Peace?
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Moaning Trees
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Who was the essence of a careless peace?
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Finny
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Did John Knowles call sports the absolute good?
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Yes
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What was the prevailing color?
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olive green
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How were Finny and Gene even?
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Finny was good at sports and Gene was good at academics
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What did the tree symbolize
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competitive nature amongst the boys
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what was the new commandment Finny created
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He said to not accuse a friend of something if you only had a feeling he did it
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Did peace desert Devon
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Yes
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What is an example of a simile in a Separate Peace
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Gene said, "I welcomed each new day as a new life, until now"
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What does white symbolize
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goodness, innocence, peace
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What does the dialogue show about the attitudes in the two households?
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Even the servents were ready to fight
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What are the attitudes of the characters towards the law?
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In spite of their bragging, they still don't want to get in trouble with the law
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It takes the Montagues servants time to speak. How might their actions show that these four servantsare very of one another?
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The montagues respond with question
THe capulets respond indirectly |
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How did Gregory's behavior change when he spots Tybalt in the distance>
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He tells Sampson to issue a real insult to Abram on how Lord Capulet is a better man than Lord Montague
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What images compare Paris to a fine book?
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a golden story, fall volume, a book of love, and an unbound lover
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What is Lord Capulet's plan?
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To marry Paris and Juliet on Thursday
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What effect could Capulet's plan have on Romeo and Juliet?
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They are going to end their lives sooner rather than later
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Summarize 17-25
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Romeo is ready to take his own life, he feels that if Juliet and him can't be together than death
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Give 3 ex that show anger of Juliet's Parents
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-Lord Capulet is beyond rational thought
-Lord Capulet has threatened to disown Juliet -calls her a green sickness |
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Summarize 43-47
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Juliet wouldn't mind laying in a coffin
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A tragedy is defined as
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A presentation of serious and important actions that end unhappily
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A tragic hero is usually
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a noble character who has a personal failing that leads to his or her own downfall
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A speech by a character speaking to himself or to the audience is called
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soliliquey
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What do lines 9-12 reveal
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ONly the death of romeo and juliet result in the the two families to stop feuding
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What do lines 5,6 from the prologue reveal
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through their death the families feud finally ends
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Rome sys that he is out of favor, wher I am in love this this translates..
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he loves but she doesn't love him
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The imagry used by Lady Capulet compares Paris to what?
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A book
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Apart or Mercutio's speech about Queen Mab is an example of what?
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a monologue
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The selection when Queen Mab visits a person, the persons dreams are about?
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what he or she secretly desires
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In act 1 scene 4 romeo says, "I dreampt a dream tonight" he reveals that?
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he forshadows his own death
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Angry that romeo has attended the party Tybalt says "I will withdraw with a swee tand bitter intrusion" this foreshadows
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Tybalts conflict with Romeo
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When Friar Laurence says to Romeo "Young Man's love then lies not truly in their herarts but in their eyes"
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Roemeos feelings of love are superficial
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What is The Oddysey about
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Odysseus trying to get home fromt the Trojan war
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What is the theme in the Odyssey
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Odysseus and his family searching for their proper places in life
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Where is Odysseus hometown
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Ithaca
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What happened to the men who ate the Lotus
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They forgot where they were going
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The blinding of the cyclops is compared to what?
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white hot axhead into a cold tub of water
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"when dawn spread out her fingertibps of rose" this is an example of what
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personification
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What did Teiresias warn Odysseus
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He warned that he and his men should stay away from Helios cattle
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Who is persephone
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Queen of the underworld
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Who is Odysseus refering to when he uses the term sobern death
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Hades
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Who is one ofhte phantom's Odysseus most keeps away from the Lamb's blood>
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Antiquilla
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Do Odysseus' men listen to Teiresias or deos Teiresias prophecy come true
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The men ignor the warning and slaughter the cattle, the prophecey comes true
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Who is Calypso
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mistress of the isle
odysseus is kept captive under Calypso |
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What is Pylos
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Home of Nestor, one of Odysseus fellow soldiers int eh Trojan war
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What does Telemahcus' response to Odysseus transformation suggest about the relationship between the gods and the greeks
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it says that the gods don't normally appear to mortals unless they are going to get punished
the ancient greeks feared the gods they felt they needed to shower them with gifts |
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What epithet is used for Odysseus here?
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But the men skilled ina ll ways of contending
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How many auditory images do we read
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-overhead one loud crack for a sign
-twanging bow -to thud with heary brazen head |
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What makes the description of Antinous' death expecially powerful?
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In spite fo the drinking, he wasn't strong
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What does Homer mean when he says the suitors imagined as they wished?
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He means that their intial response to Antinous is deial
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What does Eurymachus' speech reveal about his character?
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he is quick thinking, clever, and wily
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How does Odysseus treat the swineheard and Eumaeus?
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He treats both well and with respect
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Explain what "arriving in Ithaca" means
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a state of mind in which one appreciate sall that life has to offer
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What is a subordinate character
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One who plays a secondary role in a story
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What is a homeric or epic similie?
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A acomparrison of heroic or epic events to help us understand everyday events, might be lengthy
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What is personification
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Gives human charactaristics to non human things
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What is alliteration
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the reiteration of the same sound
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What is onomatopeia
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word or group of words that imitate a sound
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What is ryme
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Repetition of accented vowel sounds
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What is a rhyme scheme
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the pattern of end rhymes in a poem
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Who was Eumaeus
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swineherde, one of Odysseus's loyal servants
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Who was Telemechus
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Odysseus's son
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undermine
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to dig from beneath, tow wear away and weaken the supports of, to weaken or injure, especially by guileful means
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camaraderie
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the spirit of good will, loyalty, and understanding among friends, good fellowship
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apprise
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to inform, to notify, to give notice to
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recrimination
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the act of making an accusation in return, a counteraccusation
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exhaustive
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leaving out nothing, thourough, comprehensive
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enormity
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extreme wickedness, outrageousness, vastness
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elation
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high spirits, a feeling of exaltation due to relief or triumph
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austere
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stern, strict, severe in appearance or manner, plain or simple
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correlate
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1 or 2 related things, especially if one implies the other, to bring mutual relation with another
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bestow
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to confer or present as a gift or an honor to apply or dedicate for a purpose
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