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English 202 Test 2
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Undergraduate 2
02/12/2012

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Portsmouth, England 1812
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Where Charles Dickens was Born
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Rochester
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Where Dickens lived for a period of time
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Gad's Hill Place
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Name of house Dickens' saw with his dad
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Mr. Micauber
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Character in "David Copperfield" who symbolizes Dickens' dad
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Marshalea Prison
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name of debtors prison dickens' dad was sent to
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Blacking Factory
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where charles was sent to work at age 12
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Shame and Guilt
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What dickens experienced in his childhood that became themes in Great expectations
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Clerk in Lawyers office
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Dickens' job at age 16
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Parliamentary reporter (sternographer)
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Dickens' job after clerk
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Maria Bednell
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Dickens' first love
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Wealth
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Major theme of book that was shown in Maria Bednell
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Sketches by Boz
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Dickens work illustrated by George Craikshak
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Catherine Hogarth
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Who dickens married in 1836
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The Pickwick Papers
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illustrated by Hablot K. Brown (Phiz)
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40,000
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Copies of Pickwick Papers sold per month
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32 pages of text and 2 illustrations
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What each monthly installment of Pickwick papers contained
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Nicholas Nickleby
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Illustrator of Oliver Twist
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1842
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Dickens Lecture Tour U.S.
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American Notes
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Dickens 1842 Book
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Martin Chuzzlewit
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Dickens 1842 Novel
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David Copperfield
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Dickens autobiographical novel
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"Household Words" "All the Year 'Round"
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Magazines that Dickens' edited
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Ellen Ternan
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woman who Dickens seperated from Catherine Hogarth for
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The mystery of Edwin Drood
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story dickens died while writing
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All the Year Round'
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Story that Great expectations was cerialized in
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Bildungsroman
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Form Dickens used in Great expectations that focuses on growth from childhood to adult hood (Novel of maturation)
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Main theme of Great expectations
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Identity
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1. Values
2. Aspirations
3. City/Country
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3 things that make up identity
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Motif
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smaller patter
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1. Hands
2.Chains
3. Dreams/Imagination
4. Stars
5. Guilt/Conscience
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5 motifs in Great expectations
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Manu
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latin root word for hand
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Purification
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When pip burns his hands fire symbolizes this
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Manacles
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Handcuffs
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Sir
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What joe has been calling pip in london
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Joe says this to pip in london
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" So many partings welded together ones a black smith, ones a white smith, ones a goldsmoth, and ones a coppersmith"
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Pip says this about Joe's support which represents dramatic irony.
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"That was a memorable day to me..Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron, or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would have never bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day"
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Miss Havisham
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Character most closely associated w/ stars
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Estella
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Other character mostly closely associated with stars
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Gold and Silver
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What pip uses to describe Miss H's house to Mr. Pumblechook
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Cheapside, London
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Location of Jaggers where the lawcourts are and is also close to newgate prison
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Walworte
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Where Wemmick lives
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Gothic
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type of windows and doors in Wemmicks house
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Collections of Curiosities (-) and Aged Parent (+)
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2 things in Wemmicks house
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Wentworth Sentiments
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Wemmick wants to talk about things at home when he is at home. These are called
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Tumbling Up
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Used to describe the Pocket Household to describe how the kids were raised
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Domestic Economy
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What Mr. Pocket lectured in
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Doppleganger
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Double goer
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Mag and Compeyson
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2 Convicts
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Biddy and Estella
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2 girl friends
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Jaggers and Wemmick
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2 people linked to environment
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Miss Havisham and Mrs. Joe
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2 Invalides
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Magwitch for Pip and Pip for Herbert
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2 Benefactors
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Nut-meg grater
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Pip Wonder's if Mrs. Joe uses this to bathe because of the redness of her skin
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Pins and Needles
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What Mrs. Joe's apron is stuck full of
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Letter Box
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Used to describe wemmick's face
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Monster
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What Pip refers to himself as towards Joe
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Spider
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Referred to as the "crawling things" at Miss Havisham's and used to describe Bentley Drummle
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Weather
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Shows pathetic fallacy in Great expectations. (also in Porphyria's Lover)
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Water
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Story begins and ends w/ water, also misty when pip goes to london
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Simple Person, Blacksmith, all he wants is to be literate
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Joe's Identity
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Lacks an identity and shows the role of women
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Mrs. Joe Identity
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Clerk at Pip's Church and goes to london to become an actor
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Mr. Wopsle identity
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Merchant who aspires for great wealth, forshadows Mr. Jaggins in London
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Uncle Pumblechook Identity
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Georgiana, wife of the above
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Pips mother's tombstone
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misogynist after depending on fiance (Compeyson) for her identity
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Miss Havisham Identity
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Herbert Pocket
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Pip's best friend and is related to Miss H.
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Clara Barley
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Engaged to Herbert
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Mrs. Whimple
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The house Magwitch hides at while under the alias "provis"
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The Three Jolly Bargeman
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Local pub
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