Incident in a Rose Garden (RAYMOND)

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Who is the speaker in 'Incident in a Rose Garden'?

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The Master

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What literary device is used in the phrase 'his eyes lit up with the pale glow of those lanterns'?

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Personification - Gives human-like characteristics to nonhuman things.

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What is a brief summary of 'Incident in a Rose Garden'?

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A gardener believes that 'Death' has come for him when it has really come for his master (employer).

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What two literary sound devices are present in the lines 'He had his black coat on/Black gloves, a broad black hat'?

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Repetition and alliteration.

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Which literary device is used in the line 'Thin as a scythe he stood there'?

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Simile.

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What is the main theme of 'Incident in a Rose Garden'?

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The inevitability of death and the misunderstanding of its arrival.

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Define 'Personification'.

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A literary device that gives human-like qualities to nonhuman objects or abstract ideas.

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What is 'Alliteration'?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What does 'Simile' mean?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is 'Metaphor'?

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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unrelated things without using 'like' or 'as'.