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MASTER in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
PINK in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
MORAL in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
SLEEPING in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
EYES in Macbeth by William Shakespeare
STAYED in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
DOORS in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
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HELEN in The Odyssey by Homer
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REVENGE in Hamlet by William Shakespeare
SHUT in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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