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Who is Abraham and Isaac?
God tested him by asking him to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering. He was prepared to do it, but God let him spare his son because he'd proven his faith. God...telling him to leave his own country and family and promising to give his future family the land of Canaan or the Promised Land
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What is a sonnet?
a poetic form having fourteen, usually iambic, lines divided into three quatrains of four lines and a couplet of two. The rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg.
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What is Allegory?
A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings.
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What is figurative language
language using figures of speech
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What is the Scarlet Letter
Adulteress Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is wracked with guilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth, seeks revenge. The Scarlet Letter's symbolism helps create a powerful drama in Puritan Boston: a kiss, evil, sin, nature, a daughter named pearl who shows her Hester's sin in her forefront and suffers as a result, and the punishing scaffold. Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece is a classic example of the human conflict between emotion and intellect.(Dimsdale=lover)
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what is Achilles
a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable.
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What is ode?
a poem that was originally a solemn, heroic, and elevated form, for a person, object or event. More contemporary versions examine and exalt a broader range of subjects including lyric crisis.
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What is Anecdote?
A very short tale told by a character in a literary work.
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a narrative or description that has a second meaning beneath the surface
What is allegory
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what is Lord of The Flies?
Free from the rules that adult society formerly imposed on them, the boys marooned on the island struggle with the conflicting human instincts that exist within each of them—the instinct to work toward civilization and order and the instinct to descend into savagery, violence, and chaos.Civilization vs. savagery; the loss of innocence; innate human evil-Hobbe's theory. Ralph is the protagonist that leads group toward civilization, while Jack is the antagonist who leads the hunters who opposing civilization.
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What is Cain and Abel
The Two sons of Adam and Eve. ___ was older and a farmer; ____ was a shepherd. They made offerings to God, who liked ___'s lamb better than ___'s wheat. ___ was jealous and slew ____, for which he was forced to roam as an outcast, with a horrible mark on his forehead that showed that he killed his brother. He said, "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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What is villanelle?
a poetic form having nineteen lines; and five stanzas, each of three lines, with a final one of four. The first line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas; the third line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas; these two refrain lines follow each to become the second-to-last and last lines of the poem. The rhyme scheme is aba; rhymes are repeated according to the refrains
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What is Allusion?
A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work.
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What is paradox
an apparent contradiction that is true
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who is Mr. McChoakumchild?
a teacher in Dicken's Hard Times
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What is Medusa?
She was a very vein and beautiful woman transformed into a mortal gorgon by Athena. snake hair, eye contact turns you to stone, mother of pegasus
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What is ballad?
a poetic form consisting of short narrative usually arranged in four line stanzas with a distinctive and memorable meter. The usual meter is first and third line with four stresses—iambic tetrameter—and a second and fourth with three stresses—iambic trimeter. The rhyme scheme is typically abab or abcb. The poems have distinctive subject matter that is almost always about communal stories of lost love, supernatural happenings, or recent events. The poems employ popular and local speech and dialogue often and vividly to convey a story.
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What is Ballad
A story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usu. sung.
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What is dramatic irony
discrepancy between what speaker says and what poem means
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what is a raven?
death destruction; often play prophetic roles or function as conductor of the soul
500
What is Eye for an eye?
a quotation from Exodus (21:23-27) in which a person who has taken the eye of another in a fight is instructed to give his own eye in compensation. At the root of this principle is that one of the purposes of the law is to provide equitable retaliation for an offended party. It defined and restricted the extent of retaliation in the laws of the Old Testament. Often referred to as "Old Testament Justice."
500
What is elegy?
a poem that serves as a lament that mourns for a dead person, lists his or her virtues, and seeks consolation beyond the momentary event. The poem will often express a personal loss and a cultural grief with the subject shown to be possessed of social virtues.
500
What is Lyric Poem
A short poem wherein the poet expresses an emotion or illuminates some life principle.
500
What is english sonnet
three quatrains and a concluding couplet
500
who is Henry Clerval
Victor Frankenstein's best friend