Robert Frost: "Death of the Hired Man" - Read Flashcards

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note

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  • third person objective

- narrative, includes dialogue, plot, characterization, and setting

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what type of conflict do lines 102-104 of Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man illustrate?
“Poor Silas, so concerned for other folk, And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope”

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Man vs. Society

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what type of conflict is seen in lines 70-78 of Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man

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Man vs. Man

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How would you break Line 106 of Frost’s The Death of the Hired Man into syllables of iambic pentameter?
Line 106: “Part of a moon was falling down the west”

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Part of | a moon | was fal- | ling down | the west

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almost everything we know about the setting of Frost’s poem The Death of the Hired Man is revealed through dialogue. We learn that the incident takes place on a farm in

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line 35

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who are the three main characters in Frost’s narrative poem The Death of the Hired Man?

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Mary, Warren, and Silas

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