Edgar Lee Masters - from "Spoon River Anthology" - Discuss Flashcards

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note

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  • characterization (lines 1-15 tel you know who Lucinda Matlock is)
  • setting (spoon river is portrayed as a beautiful placed, filled with nature that inspires Lucinda to love life)
  • dialogue (use dialogue to engage the readers in the text)
  • theme (combination of work, pleasure, sorrow, and joy)
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in her epitaph in the Spoon River Anthology, Lucinda Matlock describes the setting of the town of Spoon River as

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having “fields where sang the larks,” “wooded hills” and “green valleys”

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carefully read lines 21-25 about Lucinda Matlock. These lines are an example of the modernist writer’s convention of using

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dialogue in poetry

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in Master’s characterization of Lucinda Matlock, how did she view death

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she called is a “sweet repose”

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the descriptive words and phrases Lucinda Mathlock uses in Lines 15 and 18 such as rambled…where sang the larks, shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys indicate

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Lucinda’s positive, happy outlook on life

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what does Lucinda Matlock mean in line 24 by, “Life is too strong for you–?”

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she means that they are not willing to live the tough times of life with joy

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