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Who am I?
Courtroom Symbols
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Grammar 101
100
Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
What is a simile?
100
Accused of "living like a dead man".
Who is the chaplain?
100
The self-proclaimed "Moral Umpire", calling the shots
Who is the Judge?
100
Death is not Meursault's escape from the shackles of society. He is free now, at this moment, not at the moment of the execution.
What is mortality?
100
Express action or state of being.
What is a verb?
200
She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse.
What is a metaphor?
200
She is simple, undemanding, and guileless.
Who is Marie?
200
Represents society's forum.
What is the courtroom?
200
After a while, one can get used to, or accept, almost anything.
What is passivity?
200
Modify a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
What is an adverb?
300
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he has wedded.
What is personification?
300
Neighbor with a mange ridden dog
Who is Salamano?
300
Representatives sent by society to cast their judgments (and stones).
Who are the jurors?
300
"Together again, Marie and I swam out a ways, and we felt a closeness as we moved in unison and were happy".
What is women and femininity?
300
Express a relationship (often in time or space) between two words.
What is a preposition?
400
The time and place in which events in a work of fiction, drama, or narrative poetry occur.
What is the setting?
400
Arouses Meursault's curiosity because of her peculiarity and meticulousness.
Who is the old, odd robotic woman?
400
Society's attempt to rationalize a universe or chain of events without order.
What is a trial?
400
"...I didn't want anybody's help, and I just didn't have the time to interest myself in what didn't interest."
What is religion?
400
Join parts of sentences and express the relationship between those parts.
What is a conjunction?
500
An abstract idea conveyed either directly or implicitly.
What is a theme?
500
Wearing gray flannels and a blue tie who studies Meursault intently with his very bright eyes, betraying no emotion.
Who is the young reporter in the courtroom?
500
Represents society's rejection of Meursault's nonconforming ways.
What is a verdict?
500
Life is meaningless - so don't rely on any logic-based rules to get you through it.
What is absurdism?
500
Express surprise or emotion.
What is an interjection?