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What lines in this page forecast an approaching disaster? Can you recall

such forecasts in other pieces of literature?

=10.= A phantom April over melting snow,

Why “phantom” April?

=11.= Deep in the North some new white wrath is brewed.

Express the meaning of this line in other language. How does it

apply to the story?

=16.= Tales jaggéd with the bleak unstudied word,

Was the language of Hugh’s stories polished? Effective? Are men

natural story tellers? Answer from your own experience.

What does the life of primitive man tell us with regard to the

matter?

=17.= Stark saga-stuff.

Define “saga.” What is meant by the words: “stark saga-stuff”?

=19.= A mere pelt merchant, as it seemed to him;

Define: pelt, epic, whist. Is “Hugh Glass” epic in material and

form?

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