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To write or chart
To graph
Represented Joseph Stalin
Napoleon
Man hunting man on island
Most Dangerous Game
Comparison using like or as
Simile
To capture image with camera
Photograph
Famous hunter
Rainsford, Zaroff
To decay
To decompose
14 year old girl seeking revenge
Mattie Ross
Detective solving murder of two women
Murder on Rue Morgue
Using a word over and over again
Repetition, motif
To inform
To notify
Beautiful countess
Gabrielle
To secure or attach
To fasten
Represented Leon Trotsky
Snowball
Rich young woman became old and poor
Rose for Emily
Beginning with same sound starting several words
Alliteration
To excuse, to forgive
To pardon
Man out walking
Leonard Mead
To adjust
To calibrate
One-eyed U S Marshall
Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn
Young man steals from parents
Burglar s Christmas
An object (thing or person) representing a concept or idea
Symbolism,, allegory
To shake or quiver
To tremble
Welcoming mother
Helen
To discard
To dispose, to dispense
Represented Aristocracy who fled Russia
Mollie
Allegory of Russian Revolution
Animal Farm
Comparison stating one thing is something else which is similar to a degree
Metaphor
To go backward becoming worse
To retrograde, to regress
Artist on death bed
Johnny, Behrman
To exit
To egress
Murderer with gun powder mark on cheek
Tom Chaney
Wife lies to controlling husband
Useless Beauty
Government using words and images to influence citizens
Propaganda
To suppose
To surmise
Murdered boyfriend
Homer
To take by force
To exact
Represented pessimistic educated class
Benjamin
Distant employees assume difficult emotions of wealthy
Standard loneliness package
Reference to a work of literature commonly known in the culture
Allusion
To go beyond bounds of law or morality
To transgress (encroach)
Consented to commit murder
Deepak