Farewell to barn and Stack and Tree – A.E Housman (Stanza Six)

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Which number is used as an ominous symbol?
The speaker inverts the syntax of the sentences uttered. What is the name of that technique?
What figurative idea is suggested by the changed word order of the lines?
What is significant of the sounds used by the poet in the final stanza?
Why does the speaker not speak of human beings who might be possibly waiting or him?
What is the technique used by the poet to make the stanza unpredictable?

Farewell to barn and Stack and Tree – A.E Housman (Stanza Five)

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What are the three wishes of the murderer?
Who expresses the three wishes?
What is the significance of the number of wishes?
What do the three wishes suggest about the speaker's life?
What technique is used to suggest the emotional agony of the speaker?
What is the seasonal indication and its symbolical meaning?
How does the narrator figuratively suggest that the idea of youth?
What is the symbolical meaning of the colour 'green'
Which line suggests that a love triangle might be the reason behind the murder?
Which word functions as a biblical allusion to the tale of "Able and Cane"?

Farewell to barn and Stack and Tree – A.E Housman (Stanza Four)

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What is the name of the literary device in which a part of something represents the whole object in a metaphorical sense?
Name two literary devices found in the first line of the forth stanza
What does the synecdoche suggest about the situation?
What are the most common sounds heard in the stanza four?
What is the specific effect created by the repeated vowel sounds?
What is the used poetic technique in stanza four line two, where commas interrupt the reading pace?
Scythe is the weapon of the Grim reaper. What is symbolized by scythe?
What are the words which indicate that the murder of Maurice is an unintentional one happened due to sudden impulse?
What is the overall tone of the stanza four?
Who are referred to as "we" in stanza four, line three?

Farewell to barn and Stack and Tree – A.E Housman (Stanza Three)

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What is suggested by the repetition of the possessive pronoun 'my' between the stanza two and three?
What is the poetic devise used in "'tis"?
"the field" is a singular noun, why is it complemented by a plural verb "were"?
What is the overall tone of the stanza Three?
What is the purpose of including a mother to the poem?
Who are referred to as "us"?
What is the relationship between the murderer and his victim? How do you find it?
What is the effect of the simple past tense verb in the third line?
What is suggested by the "rising day"?
What are the two themes suggested in the stanza three?

Farewell to barn and Stack and Tree – A.E Housman (Stanza Two)

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1. What is figuratively suggested by the 'half-mown' hill?
2. What are the three evidence available in the stanza two to prove that Maurice is dead?
3. According the description of the narrator, at what time has the murder taken place?
4. what is emphasized by the use of anastrophe in the 3rd line?
5. Why does the narrator not reveal the death of Maurice directly in the 3rd and 4th lines?
6. Definition of euphemism is..
7. What is the prominent poetic technique used in the 3rd line?
8. What is the prominence of the possessive pronoun in the 4th line?
9. What is the time indicated in the second stanza
10. What characteristics of the narrator are revealed in the second line?

Eveline 2

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Eveline

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The 'blackthorn stick' alludes to...
Who is the author of the short story, 'Eveline'?
What does the colours of the houses symbolize in the 2nd paragraph?
"Keogh" foreshadows Eve's...
What is the significance of 'Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque'?
What theme is introduced to the story by the omission of the names of the people?
A narrative technique that can be found everywhere in the story, which is a version of 'repetition' is...
What is metaphorically suggested by the posture of Eveline's sitting in the 1st paragraph?
The statement which best explains 'stream of consciousness' is
The way Eve holds her purse symbolizes...
Miss Gavan is a ...
"Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question" Here, Eve's hesitation indicates ...
James Joyce emphasizes the key concepts of the story with the usage of...
“He is in Melbourne now.” what is suggested by Eve's father's utterance about the priest?Add description here!
The writer does not introduce Eveline to the readers with her name because...

Sonnets

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1. What are the two main sections of a Petrarchan sonnet?
2. A famous example for a Petrarchan sonnet is
3. What is the structure of an English sonnet?
4. What is the Sicilian sestet?
5. What are the other least used types of sonnets?
6. What is an original sonnet?
7. What are the two main types of sonnets?
8. Where does the turn appears in the English sonnet?
9. In which lines the usual turn of a Petrarchan sonnet appear?
10. What is the Italian octave?

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