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Literature
Jane Eyre - Language
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In this passage describing the sounds made by the hidden Bertha, which phrase does not liken her to an animal or make her seem less than human?
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"Amidst all this, I had to listen as well as watch: to listen for the movements of the wild beast or fiend in yonder side den"
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"But since Mr Rochester's visit it seemed spell-bound"
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"All the night I heard but three sounds at long intervals — a step creak..."
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"A momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep, human groan"
Q.2
"There was stretched Sarah Reed's once robust and active frame, rigid and still: her eye of flint was covered with its cold lid; her brow and strong traits wore yet the impress of her inexorable soul." Which language choices give an impression of the hardness of Mrs Reed's character?
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Robust, active, strong
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Stretched, still, covered
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Rigid, flint, cold
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Brow, impress, soul
Q.3
"It seemed, sir, a woman, tall and large, with thick and dark hair hanging long down her back. I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight, but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell." What effect does the word "shroud" have here?
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The word introduces the idea of death on the morning of Jane's and Rochester's wedding day
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It reminds the reader of the sorrow of Mrs Reed's death
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The word reminds the reader that nothing at all is known of Jane's childhood
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The word introduces a humorous note
Q.4
"As for me, I daily wished more to please him: but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation." Which use of language does NOT convey the unnatural direction Jane is taking at this point in the novel?
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Disown
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Stifle
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Wrest
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Vocation
Q.5
"He looked at me before he proceeded: indeed, he seemed leisurely to read my face, as if its features and lines were characters on a page." This sentence contains an example of which literary device?
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Allegory
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Onomatopoeia
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Personification
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Metaphor
Q.6
"My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings: something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down — I uttered a wild, involuntary cry." What effect is created by the use of language in this sentence?
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The physical sensations of panic
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The disturbing sounds of creatures which live in the red room
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The reader is reminded of Jane's tendency to embellish the truth
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The reader is encouraged to view Jane from an emotional distance
Q.7
"While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells: the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality; that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors." What has been personified in these lines?
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Gloom and fear
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Bright May
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Rooms and passages
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Death and disease
Q.8
"That wind would then have saddened my heart; this obscure chaos would have disturbed my peace. As it was, I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamor." Which language choices refer strictly to Jane's own emotions?
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Sadness, chaos, gloom
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Excitement, reckless, feverish
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Reckless, howl, darkness
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Gloom, confusion, clamor
Q.9
"I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered." The use of language creates which impression here?
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The world is large and frightening
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Nature is kind and nurturing
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The world is mysterious and cold
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Nature is small in scale and knowable
Q.10
"'But to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases. It would please me now to draw you out: to learn more of you — therefore speak —' Instead of speaking, I smiled: and not a very complacent or submissive smile either." Which language choices suggest that Jane has no intention of responding to Rochester's order?
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Instead
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Not
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Very complacent or submissive
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All of the above
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