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The description of the character is given below. Identify the character from the play. Find some sentences which support your choice. He is smart as well as barve.

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The description of the character is given below. Identify the character from the play. Find some sentences which support your choice.

He is smart as well as brave.

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The character is the ballad- singer/prisoner/man.

He is smart

  • And maybe the man you are watching for to-night used to be sitting on the wall when he was young and singing those same songs... It's a queer world…
    It‘s a pity! It‘s a pity. You deceived me. You deceived me well.

He is brave

  • There isn‘t another man in Ireland who would have broken gaol the way he did.
  • I am. There are a hundred pounds on my head.
  • Will you let me pass, or must I make you let me?
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Chapter 4.2: The Rising of the Moon - Brainstorming [Page 150]

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Chapter 4.2 The Rising of the Moon
Brainstorming | Q (A3) (c) | Page 150

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