Heart of Darkness | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Invisible Man | 1984 | Vocabulary |
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What is folly?
The "devil" Marlowe foresees encountering
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What is "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board"?
This is the first line of the novel.
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What is Huckleberry?
Who young Emerson compares himself to.
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What is separate from Winston?
What Julia tells O'Brien she will not do.
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What is a homily?
This is a sermon stressing moral principles, or a tedious moralizing lecture or discourse.
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What are rivets?
What Marlowe needs in order to repair the vessel.
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Who is Phoeby?
This is the person to whom Janie is telling her story.
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What is a union meeting?
What the narrator interrupts while getting his lunch at Liberty Paints.
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What is a piece of coral?
This is set inside the glass paperweight.
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What is a dictum?
This is a short saying or authoritative statement.
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What is blood?
This soaks Marlowe's socks and shoes.
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What are her headrags?
What Janie burns after Jody's funeral.
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What is the narrator's new identity?
What Emma pulls out of her dress.
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What is "shoot"?
O'Brien tells Winston, "In the end, we shall ________ you."
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What is carte blanche?
This is full freedom or authority to act on one's discretion.
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What is "The horror"?
These are Kurtz's last words.
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What is a gambler?
What Tea Cake tells Janie he's one of the best of.
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Who is Frederick Douglass?
Brother Tarp hangs this person's portrait on the wall of the narrator's office.
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What is crimethink?
Words such as 'liberty' and 'equality' are all encapsulated in this term.
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What is verisimilitude?
This is the quality of appearing to be true, real, probable, or likely.
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What is her name?
What Marlowe tells the Intended Kurtz's last words were.
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What is sliced (twice) with a razor blade?
What happens to Tea Cake after he wins big at gambling.
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What are the "lower frequencies"?
The last line of the novel reads, "Who knows but that, on the _______________ _____________, I speak for you?
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What is 1948?
This is the year 1984 was written.
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What is bellweather?
This is a male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse, or an indicator of trends.
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