LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
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Kitty’s lack of prospects
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her husband’s poverty
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Kitty’s obligation to marry Barr-Saggott
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Barr-Saggott’s unattractiveness
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Kipling’s story “Cupid’s Arrows, ” Kitty’s nickname refers to whom? Diana, the Roman goddess of the forest. What is the main theme of “Cupid’s Arrows?"
Detailed explanation-2: -Extended allusion is allusion that is expressed more than once throughout the story, and brief allusion is the opposite of extended allusion. Brief allusion is conveyed less in a story. Rudyard Kipling’s “Cupid’s Arrows” contains extended allusion because it refers to the Trojan War throughout the whole story.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Cupid’s Arrows, the arrow is a symbol of wealth and prestige.
Detailed explanation-4: -Arnold reveals a definitely pessimistic worldview in “The Progress of Poesy.” The atmosphere of “maggie and milly and molly and may” is primarily cheerful. The major symbol of “Afterglow” is the horizon. Poe’s worldview in “The Masque of the Red Death” is revealed as a belief that death is frightening and inevitable.