holdenenglish
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Dear teachers
I am reading a crime novel, and one passage reads:
"She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column. And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalists and nothing left to say, but that too much had been said already."
I don't really understand what the following phrases mean so I am seeking advice from you:
1) a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude
2) made allusion to Icarus
3) the frenzy wore itself into staleness
Regards
Holden
I am reading a crime novel, and one passage reads:
"She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column. And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalists and nothing left to say, but that too much had been said already."
I don't really understand what the following phrases mean so I am seeking advice from you:
1) a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude
2) made allusion to Icarus
3) the frenzy wore itself into staleness
Regards
Holden