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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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rhyme

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have or end with a sound that corresponds to another.

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end rhyme

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rhyming at the end of poems

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repetition

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repeating a word

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Internal Rhyme

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a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line or in the middle of the next.

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alliteration

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words that begin with the same sound are placed close together.

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Onomatopoeia

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a word that mimics the sound it names

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Assonance

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repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

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consonance

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A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme

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pentameter

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five iambs

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tetrameter

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four iambs

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trimeter

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three iambs

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blank verse

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no rhyme but has meter

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free verse

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no meter or rhyme

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what is meter

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the number of stressed and unstressed in a line

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Esperanza

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approximately twelve-year-old Chicana who is a budding writer who wishes for a home of her own. She starts to mature emotionally and sexually.

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Nenny

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Esperanza’s sister, does not understand Esperanza’s jokes

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Carlos and Kiki

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Esperanza’s brothers, Carlos is older than Esperanza while Kiki is the youngest.

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rachel and lucy

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Mexican-American sisters who live across the street from Esperanza. they are friends and mature

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sally

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beautiful and cruel, like the women Esperanza admires in movies, spends her time dreaming of escaping the neighborhood

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how is sally a role model for esperanza

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she represents a kind of sexual maturity that Esperanza finds intriguing

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marin

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  • from Puerto Rico who lives with her cousin’s family

- teaches Esperanza and her friends about the world of boys

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alicia

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daughter of a traditional widowed Latino father

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why is alicia tired in mango street?

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she has to travel far to school and stay up late to study

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how does alicia learn english

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watches television

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geraldo

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dies in a car crash because no one could help him, he does not speak english

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louie

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esperanza’s brother best friend

the oldest child in a family from Puerto Rico who rent a basement apartment from Meme’s mother

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the vargas kids

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children of rosa vargas, who is overwhelmed and unable to control her many children

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edna

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cranky landlady of the apartment next door

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ruthie

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daughter of edna, seems to have a fear of enclosed spaces

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mamacita

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from Mexico and is stuck because of language

31
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rafaela

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a young woman married to a man who keeps her locked up when he goes out

32
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why is rafaela locked in her house

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her husband is afraid she is so beautiful she’ll run away from him

33
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minerva

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only two years older than Esperanza, but she is married with two children
read poems to esperanza

34
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sire

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esperanza’s first crush

35
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what are the four things that show that Brutus is a tragic hero

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noble birth
excessive sufferin
tragic flaw
self realization

36
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calpurnia

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julius caesar’s wife, warns caesar about the danger

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cassius

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the leading instigator of murdering julius caesar

38
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Metellus Cimber

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one of the conspirators against caesar. signals the others when to attack Caesar

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soothsayer

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tells Caesar “beware the ides of march” which is when he was supposed to be assassinated

40
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brutus

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  • one of the conspirators in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
  • Caesar’s friend and a man of honour
  • joins in the conspiracy against Caesar’s life, convincing himself that Caesar’s death is for the greater good of Rome
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caesar

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a Roman general who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire after killing Pomypey

42
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portia

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wife of brutus and stabs herself in the leg

43
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flavius

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one of the Tribunes of the People of Rome, does not like how people are honoring caesar as he liked pompey more

44
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marc antony

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caesar’s right hand man
makes caesar king
used pathos in his speech

45
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cinna

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one of the conspirators. He has a role in convincing the men to get Brutus, Caesar’s close friend, on board

46
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“Caesar cried, Help me, or I sink!…so from the waves of the Tiber Did I the tired Caesar [bear].”

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speaker: cassius
context: trying to convince brutus to join the conspiracy
importance: shows that caesar is weak and unfit to rule

47
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“Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man.”

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speaker: marc antony
context: marc antony was saying a speech to the citizens after caesar died
importance: antony repeated this more than 5 times. this is telling us that brutus is actually not an honorable man.

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“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”

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speaker: caesar
context: right before caesar “accepted” the crown
importance: cassius looks hungry and greedy for power

49
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“{looking at the body of Brutus} This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.”

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speaker: antony
context: they are looking at the body of brutus, who just killed himself
importance: although brutus killed caesar, he was a tragic hero and did the best for Rome

50
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“He had a fever when he was in Spain, / And when the fit was on him, I did mark / How he did shake. ‘tis true, this god did shake.”

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speaker: cassius
context: trying to convince brutus to join the conspiratory
importance: shows that caesar is weak at some times

51
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“I know where I will wear this dagger then; Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.”

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speaker: cassius
context: cassius just found out that they are going to crown caesar tomorrow
importance: he will be freeing himself from Caesar’s shadow

52
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“I am as constant as the northern star, / of whose true-fix’d and resting quality / There is no fellow in the firmament.”

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speaker: caesar
context: caesar is just about to get assassinated
importance: he will not budge, he will stand strong, his leadership can not be swayed, he will not change.

53
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“Not that I lov’d Caesar less, but that I lov’d Rome more.”

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speaker: brutus
context: brutus is saying his speech after caesar died
importance: hard to kill Caesar, as he loved him, but he is so sure it is right he had to killed him

54
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But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under then. It can’t last.”

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speaker: granger
context: granger is telling montag about the hobo camps
importance: people must see it for themselves that their society is wrong

55
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“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

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speaker: montag
context: talking to mildred in the night
importance: makes montag start to wonder what is in books

56
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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

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speaker: montag
context: montag is talking to mildred in the night
importance: we need to be bothered enough to stand up for something once in a while

57
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“…We’re going to build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.”

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speaker: granger
context: they have just been talking about a phoenix
importance: part of being reborn requires one to truly see oneself, which is why they want to build a mirror factory

58
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“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.”

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speaker: Beatty
context: he is telling Montag about the history of the firemen
meaning: This shows that they do not allow anyone to be different and be their own person.

59
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What role do omens have in this play?

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lion walking through the streets of Rome

60
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what superstitions are in julius caesar?

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