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Gypsy Rizka Study Guide

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by Lloyd Alexander
About 13 pages (3,833 words)
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Literary Qualities

Gypsy Rizka is an episodic novel: It has a thin overall plot and nearly all the action occurs in mini-stories that are complete tales by themselves, although each carries forward the overall plot a little. For instance, there is the ghost story in which Rizka haunts the town, the fish story in which she cons a fish out of Sobako, and the two chicken stories, in one of which Sharpnack tries to convict Rizka's cat of stealing a roast chicken and in the other of which he makes a fool of himself as Rizka cons him into taking a cure that coats him in honey and feathers and has him running in circles clucking. Each.....

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Gypsy Rizka from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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