Setting | All About Satan | Identify the Speaker | Adam and/or Eve | Literary Elements |
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What is the Tigris?
The river by which Eden is located
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What is the serpent?
The animal that Satan travels the earth to become
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Who is Adam?
"For solitude sometimes is the best society" (IX.249)
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What is death?
The punishment for eating from the Tree of Knowledge.
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What is an epic simile?
"As one who long in populous city pent / where houses thick and sewers annoy the air / forth issuing on a summer's morn to breather / among the pleasant villagers and farms" (IX.445-8)
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What is tragic?
Milton changes "those notes to _____: foul distrust and breach" (5-6).
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What are empress, queen of this universe, resplendent Eve, Sovereign Mistress
At least one name that Satan calls Eden when trying to tempt her.
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Who is Satan?
"To satisfy the sharp desire I had / of tasting those fair apples I resolved / not to defer" (584-6).
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Who is Adam?
"best are all things as the will / of God ordained them. His creating hand / nothing imperfect of deficient left of all that He created" (IX.43-6).
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What is allusion?
"than the wrath / of stern ACHILLES on his foe pursued / thrice fugitive about Troy wall or rage" (IX.15-7).
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What is the Anarctic, the ocean at Darien, Ganges, and Inus, over Pontus, or the pool Maeotis.
Name at least one place where Satan traveled to find Paradise
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What is growth, sum, or reason.
Name of thing that Satan sees in "creatures animate with gradual life. . . [that are] all summed up in Man!" (IX.113-5).
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Who is Eve?
"The rest we live / law to ourselves: our reason is our law" (653-4).
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What is "sole Eve," "associate soul," "Daughter of God and Man," "immortal Eve"
Name at least one name that Adam calls Eve.
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What is irony?
Eve says "But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt / to God or three because we have a foe / may tempt it I expected not to hear" (IX.279-81).
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