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Flashcards by jennabarnes12387, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jennabarnes12387
almost 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What 2 grammatical things do we take into account when reading a story? | person and tense |
| What are the seven things that make up and describe a narrative? | theme, plot, genre, language, symbolism, character, and setting |
| What do we know about Lord Murchinson | when he was young he was handsome, honourable, high spirited, frank and hes a conservative. Now he looks puzzled, in doubt, and anxious. something has obviously happened to him |
| Why doesn't Murchison not want to get in the yellow carriage? | it reminds him of the yellow cartridge that he first say lady Alroy riding in. |
| What do we know about Lady Alroy? | She looks like the Mona Lisa with her mysterious eyes and smile. her beauty comes from the inside, not the structure of her face. rich based on her clothing, and always in grey like the mysterious moon. |
| How does the use of the word mystery in the story effect the mood? | it becomes sort of overused and takes away from the mystery of the story, turning it into a melodrama |
| How does Lady Alroy's actions convey both foreshadowing and melodramatic overacting? | Ladu Alroy goes out of her way to act as mysterious as possible, over playing it at times. This building up makes the reader believe there is some big secret, bot ironically but also expectedly she has no secret at all |
| How is the writing of this story interesting in terms of narrator and writing style? | the story has a fram narrator, or a narrator that starts the story but then is switched out for a different narrator who is often the main character. The story is meta fiction as it is a story about a story and it is self reflective. |
| What is interesting about the character in the story in terms of there ideas on literature. | the characters seem to display advanced literary self consciousness. Lady Alroy is not a mystery herself but instead is wanting to be like a heroine from a book. All the characters reflect on literature styles and stereotypes when talking about the mysteries that unfold |
| What is the name of the cafe that the first narrator is sitting outside? | Cafe de la Paix in Paris |
| The first narrator sees a friend who is also the second narrator. What is his name? | Lord Murchinson |
| they leave the cafe and go where? | to dinner at a restaurant outside of Bois and then to talk about Lord Murchison's troubles |
| Where did Lord Murchinson first see Lady Alroy | on bond street at 5 o clock sitting in a yellow carriage |
| Where does he meet her for the second time? | At dinner at Madame de Rastails home |
| what happened when he mentioned he had seen her on bond street? | she grew pale and told him not to speak so loud as he would be overheard |
| he asked if he could call on her and she said yes, tomorrow at five. What happened when he went to her house? | he was told by the butler that she had gone out |
| what happened when he wrote her about not seeing her? | she did not answer for several days but then said he should come Sunday at 4 |
| where did he see lady Alroy while out to lunch with his uncle? | going into a house on the shabby Marylebone road, walking fast and acting mysterious |
| what did she drop? | her hankercheif |
| how did lady ALroy die? | congestion of the lungs when she caught a chill at the opera |
| who lived in the house before the boy and his family? What happened to him? | a priest lived there who died in the drawing room. |
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