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EXERCISES PAGE 98-99

Es. 1

1) hunting

2) forest

3) mother

4) meet

5) true-love

6) eels

7) poisoned

8) heart

9) gold and silver

10) hell and fire

Es. 2

a) In each stanza, the first two lines represent Lord Randal's mother's questions, the second two lines represent Lord Randal's answers. The story is told in general terms because Lord Randal is very hasty in the answers.

b) In the first stanza there are not expressions which hint at Lord Randal's death, because he says that he is wearied with hunting.

c) The sixth stanza does not contain questions and it is relevant because it reveals to us what really happened to Lord Randal: he has been poisoned!

d) They are the second stanza and for Lord Randal's oral testament the seventh, the eighth and the nineth stanzas.

Es. 3

a) The words are: gold, silver, houses, lands

b) In this context the testament is very important because the firstborn (in this case Lord Randal) possesses all the belongings belonging to the aristocratic family and it is he who has to decide who is responsible for all the goods at his death.

Es.4

The dialogue between the mother and the child is factual because the child responds coldly to his mother's questions, limiting himself to saying what is necessary and giving her orders. Emerges the love of his mother, who is very worried about him and asks him many questions to understand what happened to him and ,finally, emerges his rudeness, when he does not care about his mother and thinks only of his own business.

Es.5

The fact that the Lord Randal's true-love lives in the woods indicates hers mystery and, being associated with the forest, also hers danger. In fact she poisoned him.

Es. 6

The symbol of her false love are eels fried, because apparently they are a nice gesture towards Lord Randal, but they really are poisoned and that's where the fallacy is: as true-love initially seemed a sincere person even the eels looked good, in reality both the girl and the eels turned out to be a fallacy for Lord Randal.

Es.7

1) tragic subject matter 2) the poisonment 3) Lord Randal's return and his testament 4) Lord Randal's indifference 5) dialogue between Lord Randal and his mother 6) repetitions and the same organization 7) Lord Randal, my son, my handsome young man, ... 8) soon, doon, young, my, ...

Es. 8

Lord Randal dies in mysterious circumstances due to poisoning. When he returns home and his mother asks him where he has been, he responds coldly and not exasperatingly but slowly discovers that he has met a girl who he considers his true love, which has given him fried eels to eat. He gave his livings to his hunting animals and both died. Then we realize that he too has been poisoned and the only thing left to do is an oral testament for his family.