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| Because it made memorizing lines easier, this literary technique was used extensively by the Anglo Saxon poets |
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| The elaborate word combinations used by Anglo Saxon poets which rename a person or thing is called |
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| The original Beowulf was written down in what century |
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| Germanic Tribes brought with them a common language, the ancestor of our present day english called |
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| The 2 most important traditions of Anglo Saxon poetry were... |
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| The 3 monsters that Beowulf will meet are |
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| Grendel, Grendels mom, and the dragon |
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| What famous blood line does Grendel come from? |
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| The line of cain, the son of adam and eve who was cursed by the gods for murdering his brother |
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| How did Beowulf defeat Grendel? |
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| When Grendel went to grab beowulf while he was "sleeping" Beowulf snatched his claw and help it down until it snapped off. Grendel went back to his marsh where he was left to die. |
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| Why is Beowulf considered special? |
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| He went in thinking that there was a possibility of dying instead of going in thinking that he would win. And god is on his side. |
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| the change into a different shape or form |
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| a loud wailing lament for the dead |
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| reason rather than experience is the primary basis for knowledge |
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| the infer based on existing knowledge |
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| supernatural appearance of someone, or a ghost |
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| appropriateness of behavior |
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| if you believe it, then it is true |
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| god/nature doesn't dictate what happens, we continue because of human actions |
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| Telling someone to do something and then going agaisnt what you said |
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| the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter |
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| What immediate effect does watching the funeral have on Grendel? |
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| At the start of chapter 2, where are we chronologically in Grendels life? |
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| What dramatic event occurs to Grendel in chapter 2? |
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| He fights with his mother |
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| How is the mens reaction to Grendel different from that of the bull |
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| only the men try to understand what Grendel is |
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| What keeps grendel and his mother from becoming close? |
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| her inability to communicate |
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| How was Grendels killing different from the mens killing? |
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| Men kill people for further control of land or control of anything while Grendel kills for anger or b/c he is depressed |
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| What is Grendels relationship with man? |
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| He believes that mankind is gross and disrespectful but at the same time he sees that there are similarities between him and them |
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| What gift does the dragon give to grendel? |
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| invincibility to weaponry |
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| After the meeting with the dragon, how has grendel changed? |
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| What weapon does grendel use to vanquish Unferth? |
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| Relative to Grendels 12 year war with Hrothgar, when does Chapter 6 take place? |
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| Why did Unferth come to Grendels lair? |
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| What nickname does Grendel give to Unferth |
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| What did grendel do to unferth after their confrontation? |
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| carried him home while asleep |
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| Grendels first visit to Heorot, following meeting with the dragon, dramatically concludes with... |
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| Grendel biting the head off one of the guards and sucking his blood |
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| Unferth realizes that Grendel... |
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| can throw an apple really hard and understands language |
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| Which of Grendels senses does the dragon constantly haunt in Chapter 6 and 7? |
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| What is Grendel swept up by? |
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| the shapers ideas of goodness |
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| As grendel moves towards town, what does he step on? |
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| a man with his throat cut |
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Grendel says he "had become something as if born again" What does he say he became?
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| Grendel, Ruiner of Meadhalls, Wrecker of kings |
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| When Grendel hears the shaper sing the story of Cain and Abel what does he do? |
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| What does Grendel then cry out to the men in the meadhall? |
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| What do the men do in response to Grendels Plea? |
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| Hygmod makes 3 offers to Hrothgar. What is the initial offer? |
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| Tribute and loyatly to Hrothgar |
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| What onew info do we learn about unferth in chapter 7? |
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| Why does Grendel say he is going to kill Wealtheow? |
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| How does Grendel Kill Wealtheow? |
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| What sits on Grendels stomach like "duck eggs" |
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| The other priests believe that Ork is |
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| Hrothulf's opinion of his uncle Hrothgar attempts at civilizing the danes is that |
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| it will ultimately prove fruitless |
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| "Strangers have come and its a whole new game" Who are the strangers? |
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| Beowulf and his men are metaphorically described as... |
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| As grendel focuses on Beowulf who is standing on the beach, which best describes Grendels emotional state? |
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| dream-like, hypnotic state |
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| In his cave, Grendel twice questions whether... |
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| he is afraid of them or not |
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| Grendel says "ive seen men do mysterious things" and then describes... |
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| Why are the priests unhappy about Beowulfs arrival |
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| Beowulf is not the god they have promised that would eventually solve the problems |
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| Challenges beowulfs intergrity as a hero, brings up an odd boast with a man named Breca, and is put in his place by Beowulf |
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| Grendel hallucinates that Beowulf |
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| Grendel feels the need to point out to Beowulf.. |
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| Quotes on the left with commentary, reflections, connections, etc. based on those quotes |
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| How many tales did Chaucer anticipate writing? But how many were actually written? |
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| 120, 2 per pilgram there and back, but only 24 were finished |
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| a representation/ reference of something else |
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| ability to move quickly and easily |
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| sly dealings; skill in decieving |
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| thrifty; careful with money |
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| Chaucer wrote in what dialect? |
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| How many pilgrims and where were they headed |
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| 29 pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury |
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A literary device that binds together several different narratives, a story within a story.
The journey is the outer story, the tales are the inner stories |
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| Focus on a central characteristic |
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a line that pinpoints the essence of a characrer
ex. The knight was a "true, a perfect gentle knight" |
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| interior person through physical description |
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| Conscious use of hyperbole |
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| talk about the good things and then use one small detail about the bad part of them |
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Pride-Humility
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Gluttony-Abstinence
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| A non scholarly narrative in metrical verse; tales of love, adventure, knightly conflict, and pageantry |
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| Retelling of classical myth |
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| Tales of magic, folklore fairies and courtly love |
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| Animals are given human qualities and involved in clever tales that preach a moral lesson |
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| Nonpoetic tale in which people and things represent abstract qualities |
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| Ridicules by imitation chivalric literature and heroic characters |
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| Ridicules the chivalric romance by parody |
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| Humorous incidents that ridicule people |
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| Stories based on clever tricks involving infidelity |
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| an oratory preaching a christian message |
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| A sermon that illustrates a known moral lesson |
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| Tales of inspirational acts of martyrdom |
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| Tales in which the virgin mary miraculously aids a follower in time of need |
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| Tales to inspire moral conduct in the listener |
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| "and he would help the poor for the love of christ and never take a penny... He paid in tithes in full when they were due on what he owned and on his earnings too." |
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| "Bold in his speech, yet wise and full of tact. There was no manly attribute he lacked. Whats more, he was a merry-hearted man" |
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| "yet he was rather close as to expenses and kept the gold he won in pestilences" |
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| "And he was under contract to present the accounts, right from his masters earliest years no one ever caught him in arrears." |
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| "a wrangler and buffoon he had a store of tavern stories, filthy in the main. He was a master hand at stealing grain" |
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| "Garlic he lved and onions too, and leeks, and drinking strong wine till he was hazy. Then he would shout and jabber as if crazy, and wouldnt speak a word except in latin" |
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| "As for his skill in reckoning in tides, currents and many another risk besides, moons, harbours, pilots he has such dispatch that from Hull to Carthage none was his match" |
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| "His house was never short of bake meat pies, of fish and flesh and these in such supplies it positively snowed with meat and drink" |
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| "...his horse was thinner than a rake and he was not too fat, i undertake, But had a hollow look, a sober stare; the thread upon his overcoat was bare." |
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| "He knew of every judgement, case and crime recorded since King Williams time" |
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| "he knew the taverns well in every town and every inkeeper and barmaid too better than lepers, beggers and that crew" |
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| "so he had set hit wits to work, none knew he was in dept, he was so strongly in negotiation, loan bargain and commercial obligation." |
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| "Their wisdom would have justified a plan to make each one and alderman; they had capital and revenue; besides their wives declared it was their due." |
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| "He stayed at home and watched over his fold so that no wolf should make the sheep miscarry, he was a shepherd and no mercenary." |
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| "He'd sewed a holy relic in his cap; his wallet lay a before him on his lap. Brimful of pardons come from Rome all hot. He had the same small voice as a goat has got." |
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| "In company she liked to laugh and chat and knew the remedies of loves mischances and art in which she knew the oldest dances." |
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| "...he was never rash whether he bought on credit or paid cash. He used to watch th market most precisely and got in first so he did quite nicely." |
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| "But what a pity-so it seemed to me. That he should have an ulcer on his knee. As for blancmange, he made it with the best." |
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| "And in his hand he bore a might bow. His head was like a nut, his face was brown, he knew the whole of woodcraft up and down." |
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| "...a most distinguished man, who from the day on which he first began to ride abroad had follewed chivalry." |
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| "Her forehead, certainly, was fair of spread, almost a span across the brow, i own; she was by no means undergrown." |
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| "He liked a fat swan best, and roasted whole. His palfrey was as brown as is a berry." |
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| "Singing he was, or flutting all the day: He was as fresh as is the month of May." |
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| the knight undertakes a quest to- |
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| Task given to him by the queen |
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| Before he sees the old woman in the woods, the knight sees- |
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| more than 24 ladies dancing |
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| mastery over their husbands |
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| The wife of baths philosophy of marraige shows that she- |
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| Who narrates the tale about the Knight and the old woman? |
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| What is the relationship between tales and the pilgrams that tell them? |
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| The tales represent the personality of the pilgrim who tells them |
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| Because chaucer died before the tales were completed, how do scholars determine their order? |
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| They group together stories by their theme because they believe that each tale is a response to another tale which provokes the next tale. |
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| The moral of the pardoners tale can best be summarized as: |
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| the love of money is the root of all evil |
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| The old man in the Pardonners tale probably symbolizes an agent of... |
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| Whose tale does the miller follow and why? |
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| The knights because they share a theme of marraige |
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| What must a sentence contain |
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| one that creates a complete thought without the help of another clause |
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| depends on another clause to complete a thought |
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| For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So |
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1. before a conjuntion
2. after a lengthy introductory phrase
3. to seperate elements of a list
4. before and after non essential elements
5. to seperate coordinate adjectives(of equal importance) that describe the same noun
6. to seperate elements of the date or places
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2. before a conjuctive adjective that joings 2 independent clauses
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| to shake or wave menacingly |
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| to inflict verbal punishment |
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