Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each theme to what the imagery is doing.
- Consolation
- Admonition
- Levelling
- Instruction
- Behave accordingly, and note that you are addressed
- Rank does not survive death
- Dying well is a skill that can be taught
- Death is not final; judgement and resurrection follow
Hints
- The four operate simultaneously rather than as alternatives.
- The one about rank is the social claim.
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- Consolation → Death is not final; judgement and resurrection follow
- Admonition → Behave accordingly, and note that you are addressed
- Levelling → Rank does not survive death
- Instruction → Dying well is a skill that can be taught
Why
Separating the four clarifies why the same image can feel comforting and threatening at once: it is doing both deliberately, and the levelling claim gives it a social edge that a purely devotional reading misses entirely.
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