Mathilde lives in Paris, in a relatively modest apartment, where the walls are "bare" and the chairs are "shabby." You might say that, in Mathilde's imagination, she lives in an opulent mansion where she is attended to by many servants and presented with expensive, fancy meals. But the truth of her situation is that she's not a member of the aristocracy; she's married to a clerk, and they share that very basic and somewhat rundown apartment....
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Mathilde lives in Paris, in a relatively modest apartment, where the...
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What are some examples of real life people who are similar to Mathilde...
What are some examples of real life people who are similar to Mathilde Loisel in "The Necklace?"
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What are some examples of foreshadowing in Guy de Maupassant's short...
What are some examples of foreshadowing in Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace"?
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In the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, where does Mathilde live?
In the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, where does Mathilde live?
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Where does Mathilde live in the story "The Necklace"?
Where does Mathilde live in the story "The Necklace"?
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Give two examples of alliteration from the story. Write down the full...
Give two examples of alliteration from the story. Write down the full sentences in which the alliterative elements exist.
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Alliteration is a literary device that can be used to make a text sound...
Alliteration is a literary device that can be used to make a text sound more poetic. Unlike rhymes that modern audiences are more familiar with, where the sounds at the ends of the words are the same, alliteration is when the sounds at the beginning of the words are the same. This was used often in ancient epic poems like Beowulf, instead of an end rhyme. An example of alliteration would be something like black bunnies burrow in the bleak...
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What are some examples of foreshadowing in Guy de Maupassant's short...
What are some examples of foreshadowing in Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace"?
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In the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, where does Mathilde live?
In the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, where does Mathilde live?
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Where does Mathilde live in the story "The Necklace"?
Where does Mathilde live in the story "The Necklace"?
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Why does the setting fail to complement Mme. Loisel in "The Necklace?"
Why does the setting fail to complement Mme. Loisel in "The Necklace?"
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Give two examples of alliteration from the story. Write down the full...
Give two examples of alliteration from the story. Write down the full sentences in which the alliterative elements exist.
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In describing Mathilde as a character, we first must extrapolate the...
In describing Mathilde as a character, we first must extrapolate the traits that make her salient and unique. Then, you can take those traits and make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections with them. Text-to-text connections- Compare Madame Loisel to another literary character. Text-to-self connections- Compare Madame Loisel to someone you know from a personal experience. Text-to-World connections- Compare Madame Loisel...
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The setting of Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” is...
The setting of Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” is the apartment of Monsieur and Madame Loisel at the Rue des Martyrs (which, in English, translates into “the street of martyrs”) in Paris. The tenement is a small one, furnished with the bare necessities that enable a life in genteel poverty. The reader really does not get a chance to form a full conjecture about the state of the apartment because Mathilde, Madame...
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What happens after Madam Forestier realizes that the necklace she...
What happens after Madam Forestier realizes that the necklace she received from Madam Loisel was a real diamond necklace?
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This happens at the very end of the story. Let's take a look: Madame...
This happens at the very end of the story. Let's take a look: Madame Forestier had halted."You say you bought a diamond necklace to replace mine?""Yes. You hadn't noticed it? They were very much alike."And she smiled in proud and innocent happiness.Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her two hands."Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred francs! ..." As you can see, after ten years of hard...
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Guy de Maupassant's tale of a beautiful, yet petty, young woman who is...
Guy de Maupassant's tale of a beautiful, yet petty, young woman who is disconsolate over her social position demonstrates the use of figurative language throughout the narrative. When her husband tries to cheer his wife who bemoans their social position by showing her an invitation he has received to a ball at the Ministerial Mansion, Madame Loisel tosses it aside petulantly because she has no dress appropriate for such a ball. To make her...
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In the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, where does Mathilde live?
In the story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, where does Mathilde live?
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Where does Mathilde live in the story "The Necklace"?
Where does Mathilde live in the story "The Necklace"?
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Why does the setting fail to complement Mme. Loisel in "The Necklace"?
Why does the setting fail to complement Mme. Loisel in "The Necklace"?
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