Paper 1 - Lamia Flashcards
1
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quotes from opening setting
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- faery broods
- prosperous (flourishing) woods
2
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quotes from Lamia’s snake description
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- mournful voice
- Ah miserable me!
- gordian (complex) shape
- dazzling hue
- demon’s mistress or the demon’s self
3
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quotes about the nymph
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- she grieved
- fearful sobs
4
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quotes from Lamia’s transformation
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- mouth foamed
- convulsed with scarlet pain
- nothing but pain and ugliness were left
5
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quotes describing Lamia as human
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- not one hour old, yet of sciential brain
6
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quotes for Lamia and Lycius meeting
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- his eyes had drunk up her beauty
- Goddess
- what canst thou say or do of charm enough
- even as thou vanishest so i shall die
7
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quotes describing Lycius’ love
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- tangled in her mesh
- swoon’d murmuring of love and pale with pain
- blinded lycius
- entangle your soul in mine
8
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quotes describing Apollonius
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- sharp eyes
- my trusty guide
- haunting my sweet dreams
9
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quotes describing moments of happiness
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- love in a palace
- eyelids closed, love still kept open
- purple lined palace of sweet sin
- too short was their bliss
10
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quotes from lamia’s disappearance
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- eye like a sharp spear
- keen cruel perceant (penetrating) stinging
- with a frightful scream she vanished
11
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quotes from Lycius’ death
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- no pulse or breath they found
- heavy body wound
