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12 week test.2 Flashcards

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At Woodward’s Garden

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Robert Frost

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what does tone in a poem refer to

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the speaker’s attitude toward his subject and his audience

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Art Review

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Kenneth Fearing

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Bribe

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Pat Mora

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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The Battle of Blenheim

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Robert Southey

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John Anderson my Jo

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Robert Burns

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O Mistress Mine

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William Shakespeare

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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William Wordsworth

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Loveliest of Trees

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A.E. Housman

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Desert Places

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Robert Frost

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Recessional

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Rudyard Kipling

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Lord Randal

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old folk ballad

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All in green went my love riding

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e.e. cummings

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The Castle

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Edwin Muir

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THe Seven Ages of Man

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William Shakespeare

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Uphill

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Christina Rossetti

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The Erl-King

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Goethe

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Fact about Tennyson

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England’s poet laureate for over 40 years

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one of Scotland’s greatest poets

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Burns

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England’s greatest nature poet

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Wordsworth

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a modern poet who tried new ideas with no punctuation or capitalization along with using visual cues

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Cummings

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very devout woman who wrote much religious poetry

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Rosetti

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talks about a boy who uses a magnifying glass in the wrong way and burns some monkeys in a zoo. They take the glass, hide it, and he never recovers it. Knowing what to do with knowledge is what counts.

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At Woodward Gardens

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talks about the pictures of graffiti artists (like a critic giving a review) and the artists themselves

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Art Review

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as Indian women buried an offering and asked for help in making woven art, so the author makes an offering and asks for help in using words

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Bribe

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600 soldiers bravely rode into canons’ range only with swords; though not all returned, all should be remembered for their bravery

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Charge of the Light Brigade

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quote from Battle of Blenheim

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it was a famous victory

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as a grandfather recalls a battle of victory, his grandchildren point out the war’s horrors

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Battle of Blenheim

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John was Burns’ buddy in youth and they will end up dying together

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John Anderson My Jo

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Let’s get on with love while we’re young

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O Mistress Mine

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a scene of lovely daffodils gives the author comfort in the future

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I wandered lonely as a cloud

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Housman realizes his time is short, so he’s going to enjoy the trees’ blossoms

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Loveliest of Trees

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Frost is not worried about the snowy fields of empty spaces between the starts, he worries more about the empty spaces in his own life

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Desert Places

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reminds those of England that their real power is God, not their military

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Recessional

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ballad told the story of a fellow who was poisoned to death by a girlfriend

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Lord Randal

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there is sadness for animals killed or for relationships that are as well

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all in green went my love riding

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the old guard who could be bribed was the weak point of a fortified castle

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the castle

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infancy, schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, elderly, senile

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The 7 Ages of Man

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after the Judgment, heaven can be our home

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Uphill

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the spirit of mischief kills the boy because his father heeded the warning too late

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The Erl-King

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41
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3 types of poetry with explanations

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lyrical - expresses intense emotion
narrative - tells a story
dramatic - characters who speak

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4 types of meter with explanation

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iamb - short long
trochee - long short
anapest - short short long
dactyl - long short short

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non fiction deals with

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real people, real experiences, realistic ideas

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44
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haiku - 3 points

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5,7,5 syllables
from Japan
about nature usually

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free verse

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no particular scheme, pattern, rhythm, or rhyme

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What kind of poems illustrate free verse?

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I am poems

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Metered verse

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definite pattern and rhythm

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purposes of nonfiction

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entertain
inform
explain
persuade

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What do non-fiction writers use persuasion for?

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change people’s ideas or actions

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What is an essay?

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a piece of prose that gives a brief explanation about a topic

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What does a writer’s style deal with

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the way language is used and ideas are arranged

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52
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Which rhyme scheme can be a rap?

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anapest

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What French word did essay come from?

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I try

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54
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What are essays written about?

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thousands of topics since essays are very personal

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55
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uses chronological order and spatial process, then describes emptiness and usefulness

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Death of a Tree

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What does MLA stand for?

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modern language association

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57
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How is a citation usually done?

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(author pg.#). or (title of website paragraph number).

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How is the Works Cited page set up?

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after the last page of your paper
has page number with last name like others
centered “Works Cited”
double spaced
alphabetical order by first thing in each entry

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What is hanging indention and how does it help?

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2nd and 3rd lines are indented
shows which source is which
gives organization

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How do you do a Works Cited entry?

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last name, first name. Title in italics. Place of publication, city. …….. Print

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uses an anecdote, an allusion to a fairy tale, personal experiences, and allusion again

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Straw into Gold

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What to do with 2 authors?

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Last first and first last

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What to do with three authors

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just last names

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What to do with four authors

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First author and et. al

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Unknown author?

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…..

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66
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What happens if an author writes two books?

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put — in place of author the second time

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uses a problem, one who helped address the issue, a solution, and a quotation from a book

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Flight of Rachel Carson

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68
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What is plagiarism and why is it important?

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stealing someone’s intellectual property
can lose education
must learn

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uses a family situation, realizations, and something still mysterious

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my mother, rachel west

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how can you avoid plagiarism

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directly quoting and using quotation marks
paraphrasing - put name at end
put name in text

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uses an analogy comparing reading a river to reading a book

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life on the mississippi

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72
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uses a name change, an explanation, some cultural differences, and recalls the name again

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by any other name

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uses an incident of a boy with an adult and later tells how the adult had influenced him

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a whole nation and a people

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74
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uses a powerful personal experience and then compares it to past personal experiences

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taste of snow

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75
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when must someone by cited?

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any idea that is not your own

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When one really thinks about eating game and the sacrifice involved, they also think about their own

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mortality

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Rachel West was a person who

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laughed much
loved children
never gave up without trying

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this child confronted the snow with

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twirling and dancing

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Premila was offended because her teacher said that

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Indians cheated

80
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What food did the author remember 30 years later

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figs

81
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3 things to evaluate a resource with explanation

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authority - is the author credible
accuracy - show their own citations
currency - is the info up to date

82
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what was done in the name of public health to rid places of insects

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airplanes sprayed deadly chemicals to kill them

83
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the death of a tree

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starts at the top from the outside

84
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For a great tree death comes as a gradual transformation is the author’s

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thesis

85
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What shows a website to be trustworthy

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a group behind the 
editors
editorial policy
contributors
board of directors
86
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With a little ______ the straw of one’s experiences can be spun into gold

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imagination

87
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The place where Dickens worked as a boy was

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the blacking warehouse

88
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When Twain learned the language of the river, what did he lose?

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the ability to see the river’s beauty

89
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A brief story about an interesting or humorous incident is called

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anecdote

90
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To what must citations point?

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the Works Cited page

91
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An extended point-by-point comparison between two things

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analogy

92
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Where does an author’s name go in the text?

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in the text itself

in parenthesis

93
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Punctuation of the in text parenthesis

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period afterward

94
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Exception to period after parenthesis

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lengthy indented quotation

95
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the writer’s attitude toward his or her subject is called ______ and is revealed through_______

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tone

diction

96
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can a citation have multiple page numbers

if so when

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yes

if no other source inbetween

97
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Is putting the URL for a website sufficient as an entry on the Works Cited page?

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no

98
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How is last section of paper to be written?

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two summaries of lit crit and a crit of both

99
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How can all the sections be unified?

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introduction
all works cited together
combine sections

100
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many other ______ have a rich dramatic tradition

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countries

101
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the type of drama that comes from a Greek word meaning goat song

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tragedy

102
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type of comedy which depends on improbable situations and exaggeration

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farce

103
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stage directions, sound effects, soliloquies, and asides

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conventions of drama

104
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Who wrote Marriage Proposal

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Anton Chekhov

105
Q

Lomov and Natalia argue about

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land and hunting dogs

106
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Who finally gets Lomov and Natalia engaged?

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Tschubukov

107
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What words end the Marriage Proposal

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Champagne, champagne

108
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Visit to a Small Planet was written by

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Gore Vidal

109
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Roger Spelding works as a _______

How is John related to him?

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TV caster

future son-in-law

110
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What can Kreton do and what is he?

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alien

read people’s minds and wants to take over the world

111
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What does Kreton note about humanity?

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love violence

112
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What does the second alien do?

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scolds Kreton and forces him to give up his scheme

113
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What do the humans do after the aliens leave?

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forget their contact

114
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How are the beginnings of the acts of Thunder on Sycamore street the same, and where do they change?

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all start with the same scene, but quickly move to take a different character’s perspective each time

115
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Who is the foil for Frank Morrison?

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Arthur Hayes

116
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Who is Mr. Harkness?

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Phyllis’s father

117
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What does Arthur do?

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real estate

118
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How does Arthur rebel against Phyllis?

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turning off the phonograph playing dance music

119
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What does Arthur tell Phyllis?

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the thing the group is doing against Joseph Blake is ugly

120
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What does Arthur finally decide?

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he leaves with Phyllis encouraging him

121
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How does Joseph react to the situation?

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calms Anna by saying they have the right to stay on their own terms

122
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What does Joseph do out on the porch?

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challenge Frank Morrison to be the first to kill him

123
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What happens when Joe is hit with a rock?

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Arthur elbows up and stands by Joseph Blake

124
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What does Frank do after Arthur’s action?

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endeavors to rally the crowd, but the crowd leaves

125
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What is blank verse

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2 lines that do not rhyme

126
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heroic couplet

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2 lines that rhyme with iambic pentameter

127
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What is a soliloquy?

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a long speech with no other characters on stage

128
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What is the correct story term order?

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exposition, rising action, crisis, falling action, climax, and resolution

129
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What is Shakespeare often called?

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the greatest writer of the English language

130
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What did Shakespeare write?

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38 plays

154 sonnets

131
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When did Shakespeare live?

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1564-1616

132
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What was the stage like?

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simple

133
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Why is Shakespeare’s language hard to understand

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poetic

134
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What was Romeo and Juliet based off of

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a French novel

An Italian novel

135
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What did Shakespeare do with borrowed plots?

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enhanced them

136
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What can Shakespeare’s plays be categorized as

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tragedies, histories, comedies

137
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How does Romeo hear about the Capulet party

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a Capulet asks him to read an invitation for him

138
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What do the nurse and Lady Capulet do about Paris to Juliet?

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encourage her to marry him

139
Q

Who was Prince Escalus’ mother

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unknown

140
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Who was queen mab

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fairy queen

141
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What happens when Romeo sees Juliet

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instantly falls in love

142
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What does Capulet persuade Tybalt to do at the party?

A

not to harm Romeo

143
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What do Romeo and Juliet realize?

A

they love a family enemy

144
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Where do Romeo and Juliet meet, and what do they agree to?

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Juliet’s room, church, send news by Nurse

145
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What is parting is such sweet sorrow

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oxymoron

146
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What does Romeo ask Friar Lawrence to do?

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perform a wedding to Juliet for him

147
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What does Lady Capulet do about Juliet’s marriage?

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nothing - she is unaware

148
Q

What is the turning point in Romeo and Juliet

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Mercutio and Tybalt’s death

149
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To when does Capulet change the wedding day?

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thursday

150
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What does Juliet do about the approaching dawn?

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tries to ignore it and keep Romeo close

151
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What does Romeo do at dawn before fleeing?

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climbs down a rope ladder from Juliet’s room right before Lady Capulet enters

152
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What does Lady Capulet call Romeo?

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villain

153
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What is Juliet’s initial reaction to marriage to Paris?

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refusal

154
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How does Friar Lawrence give Juliet hope?

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gives her an appear-dead-42-hours potion

155
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What is Capulet’s reaction to Juliet’s change of heart, and why is this relevant?

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moves the wedding up a day

throws off Friar Lawrence’s plan

156
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How does Juliet take the potion?

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hesitantl

157
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Who discovers Juliet’s death

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nurse

158
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How do the Capulets and Paris feel about Juliet’s death

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very grieved

159
Q

How does Friar Lawrence try to comfort

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Juliet is now in heaven

160
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how does act 4 close

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Peter talking to musicians

161
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What does satire do?

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pokes bitter or playful fun at mankind’s weaknesses and sins

162
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How many lines does a sonnet have

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14

163
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Where can you find a sonnet in Romeo and Juliet

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Friar Lawrence

164
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What does an aside do?

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vocalizes thoughts to an audience

165
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What do actors do during an aside?

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pretend they don’t hear it

166
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Who brings the news of Juliet’s death to Romeo

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Balthasar

167
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What is Romeo’s plan

A

to die with Juliet by poison

168
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Why is Romeo unaware of the potion?

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Friar John could not deliver the letter from Friar Lawrence

169
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Why does Paris come to the tomb?

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to decorate her grave with flowers

170
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Why does Paris think romeo has come to the grave?

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to perform a curse

171
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How does Juliet die?

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stabbing with Romeo’s knife

172
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Who didn’t say “Our star crossed lovers hath crashed indeed their barks

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Lady Montague, Romeo, Juliet

173
Q

Does Friar Lawrence ever come clean

A

yes

174
Q

What does the Prince decree

A

they’ve been punished enough

175
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What does Capulet intend to do?

A

make a gold statute of Romeo

176
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When does Lady Montague die?

A

the news of Romeo’s death

177
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How does the play end

A

the prince stressing the story of woe

178
Q

the death of sennacherib

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george gordon

179
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dream deferred

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langston hughes

180
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i’ll tell you how the sun rose

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emily dickinson

181
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the day is done

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longfellow

182
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mending wall

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robert frost

183
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the cloud

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percy shelley

184
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jazz fantasia

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carl sandburg

185
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the fawn

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edna st. vincent millay

186
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the meadow mouse

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theodore roethke

187
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eldorado

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edgar allan poe

188
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What does The Face in the Mirror discuss?

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a veteran needing purpose in life

189
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To Satch is

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a tribute to a legendary baseball player

190
Q

Eldorado is

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could be interpreted as the Christian’s quest for heaven

191
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The Day is Done is

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the poet asks for someone to read passionate poets to relax him

192
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Contrasts ancient ships’ valuable items with modern ships’ necessary items

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Cargoes

193
Q

contrasts the sunrise and sunset

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I’ll tell you how the sun rose

194
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poet claims we can have divine inspirations

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the sound of the sea

195
Q

tells how often we can erect offensive barriers against others

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Mending Wall

196
Q

unusual speaker

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the cloud

197
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peaceful setting and relaxing mood

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space

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