hop frog
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maurihall Plus on April 12, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 author of hop-frog | edgar allen poe |
| what kind of jokes did the king like? | mean practical jokes |
| how many ministers were there | 7 |
| the ministers well all accomplished at what | joking |
| name of the king's fool | hop frog |
| the king liked hop-frog a lot because he was a | cripple and a dwarf and a fool |
| who named him hop-frog | the king's seven ministers |
| describe hop frog's walk | something between a leap and a wiggle |
| what was special about hop-frog's arms and legs | his legs were cripple, his arms had prodigious muscular power, he could climb anything |
| where was hop-frog from? | some barbarous region no one had heard of |
| how do we know the king had a successful army | they generals are described as every victorious, plus they captured hop frog and his lady trippetta |
| trippetta used her influence to | help hop-frog whenever she could |
| hop frog was called on for | masquerades and balls to set up the events |
| eclat define | Brilliancy of success or effort |
| why was hop-frog not fond of wine? | it excited the poor cripple almost to madness |
| what made hop-frog sad? | when the king ordered him to drink for his absent friends |
| the king's stupidity is first shown by | his love of crude jokes, then his misreading of hop frog and his inability to see hop frog's trap until it was too late |
| what word does the king misunderstand? | endeavor |
| how do we know how to feel about the king? | he is called a tyrant and a monster by the narrator |
| what did the king do to Trippetta and why | he threw her down and threw his wine in her face for asking him to spare hop frog |
| how do the king and his seven ministers dress to scare the women | as orangoutangs (ourang-outangs) |
| what does the orangoutang costume consist of | first tight-fitting stockinette shirts and drawers then saturated with tar then hair represented by flax |
| why were orangoutangs thought to be scary | they were not seen in that part of the world often |
| what is flax | A widely cultivated plant, Linum usitatissimum, having pale blue flowers, seeds that yield linseed oil, and slender stems from which a textile fiber is obtained |
| french words in hop frog | fete and flambeau |
| at what time did the orangoutangs appear | midnight |
| an example of the king showing SOME forethought is | excluding weapons from the room |
| an example of the king being stupid (in setting up the joke) | allowing himself to be chained and covered in tar and flax and allowing hop frog to lock the doors and keep the key |
| how were the king and his seven ministers hoisted up? | the chandelier had been removed so only a chain with a hook remained, hop frog attached the hook to the point at which their chains connected |
| who worked the chain? | some unknown force, probably trippetta |
| when was the group hoisted high? | after hop frog gave a shrill whistle |
| what was the grating sound heard by the kind after throwing trippetta and upon being strung halfway to the ceiling | the grinding of hop frog's teeth |
| ending of the story | hop frog and trippetta leave and are never seen again, assumed to have gone back to their own country |
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