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English quotations
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scrooge=bad | "Made his eyes red" |
| Pudding idiots | "Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding" |
| Path | "Shun the path I tread" |
| Malthusian economics | "Decrease the surplus population" |
| Halfway transformed | "I learnt a lesson which is working now. Tonight, if you have ought to teach me let me profit by it." |
| Foreshadowing humanaties evil | "The long scar" |
| Need for civilisation | "We'll want to know all their names" |
| Clothing symbolising degradation | "He had taken off his school sweater" "His clothes torn" |
| Savagery | "Jack snatched the glasses of his face" |
| Animal simile | "The Boys lay, panting like dogs" |
| Effect of old life | "Here, invisible yet strong was the taboo of old life" |
| Anonymous | "He smeared on the clay" |
| Conch | "The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments" |
| Loss of english language (3 quotes ) | "Sam,Eric" "Sam'n eric" "Samneric" |
| Perfect love reflected in the sonnet that the form | "Saints do not move though grant for prayers sake. Then move not while my prayers effect I take" |
| Bawdiness | "Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest of age" |
| Romeo is now peaceful | "Gentleman,for shame, forbear this outrage" |
| Parenthood-Good | "Fourteen years, let two more summers wither" |
| Parenthood-Bad | "Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch" |
Created by:
Paul Glynn
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