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The most obvious imaginative comparison in what stumped the blew jay is

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Personification

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What form of literary device dose the nightingale and the glow worm represent?

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Allegory, a story or pome that can be interpreted to show a hidden meaning

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What is the teem of mother to son

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Life is sometimes tough, work hard, do not give up

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In the souls dark cottage walker uses the metaphors:

  1. Comparing the body to the _____ _____
  2. And comparing death to ___ _______ __ _ _____
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  1. Dilapidated (state of dispar) cottage

2. The crossing of a river

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What is the theme of the grasshopper and the cricket

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That poetry provides relief from life’s hardships

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What dose the author use to add to the natural flow of his lines

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Enjambement

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March of a one man band.
The meter is ______, it shifts randomly between ______ and ______, it throws off the readers rhyme and adds to the awkward and chaos of a one man band

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Irregular, iambic, anapestic

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In winters ocean what impression of the ocean do the rhyme and sound give readers?

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The sound creates a solid and choppy sound evoking a kind of blustering energy.

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Heavy vowels such as short U’s and long Q’s combined with marked constituents to creat an almost ______ roughness

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Cacophony- harsh mixture of sound

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In cupids arrow the main caricature kitty is compared to ___ _______ ______ _______ because they were both skilled in archery and both were very beautiful

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The mythological goddess Diana

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What is the theme of out of my way grandpa

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People should compete for their own benefit rather than solely to win

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What overall atmosphere does the author if out of my way grandpas creat? How does this help reinforce the theme?

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His essay is humorous, this allows him to catch the feeders attention in the non confrontational way.
It is easer got them to apply to admit the truth of the theme and apply it to their lives

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What is the biblical allusion in the progress of posey

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Moses smithing the rock to bring forth water

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In the progress of posey what dose the fountain symbolize?

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Artistic inspiration

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In the progress of posey how would you describe the atmosphere?

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Fatalistic

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What is the thee of Maggie milly moly and may?

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” for whatever we lose like a you or a me, it’s always ourselves we find at the sea” his theme is that our choices and perspectives on life revival something and her reaction revivals something about her

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What are the symbols in Maggie milly moly and may

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A shell, a starfish, a crab, and a stone

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What is the primary symbol in afterglow

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A sunset

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What is the atmosphere of the listeners

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Mystery

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In the listeners who does the traveler symbolize?

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Anyone the author withholds in the pome

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In the mask of the read death the primary conflict is _____. Just as prosperous and his followers cannot escape the red death, so humans inevitably surcome to death

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External

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In mask of the red death The over all tone ____ ___ ________ a biblical world view

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Dose not support

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In a pice of chalk the author uses what color to symbolize virtue

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White

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In the golf links lie so close to the mill how are the roles reversed?

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The children are working in the mill and the adults are playing golf

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In the golf links lie so close to the mill how does The outhor want readers to react

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To be indignant at the factory owner who take advantage of the children

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What is the theem of the golf links lie so close to the mill

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The future is unpredictable

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Letter from a west Texas constituent exemplifies what type of irony

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Structural

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What is the tone of the day the dam broke?

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Humorous

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In the day the dam broke _____ irony is illustrated thought the first paragraph, the reader knows that the dam has not broken but the characters do not

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Dramatic

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The pome earth exemplifies what form of literary device

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Sarcasm

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In at the aquarium the pome is an example of ______ ____ by unexpectedly reversing perspectives part way threw the pome

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Situational irony

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In the screwtape letters screwtape dose not understand ___ _____

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Gods love

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In the spider and the wasp the selection is literature of information and not necessarily the type that best uses _________ ________

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Imaginative comparison

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Mother to sone is an example of a _______ _______

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Extended metaphor

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a. Unduly favorable estimation of one’s own abilities or worth; overly positive self-regard.
b. Archaic Estimation or opinion of something, especially when favorable.

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Conceit

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In john 1 the _____ and the _____ the word are used as metaphors when studying Christ

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Lamb, light

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In a gray sleeve the author uses _____ to battle life with intensity and Danger

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Cacophony

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In after glow the pome discuses how humans deal with ____

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Endings

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Silla toothless is an example of what type of irony

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Verbal

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In the screwtape letters screwtape uses _____ and ______ as dangours for when people filly begin to see reason, because when you use reason you think clearly and are Likely to be drawn back to God

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Arguments, reasons

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