Assessment 3: Week 1A

Question 1

1) Quote 1

Theocritus

Answer 1

“I thought once how Theocritus had sung, of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years”

• auditory imagery in Sonnet I, the audience is invited to visualize the picture Browning is painting S1

Question 2

1) Quote 2

Melancholy

Answer 2

“The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, those of my own life, who by turns had flung a shadow across me”,
- metaphor designed to relate the known to the unknown for her audience S1

Question 3

1) Quote 3

Old

Answer 3

“I love thee with a passion put to use in my old griefs.”

• grief that a later Persona experience in their past was surpassed by the strength of their love for their lover, as shown through the use of emotive language in SXLIII

Question 4

1) Quote 4

Awful

Answer 4

“saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand”

• characterisation of Daisy

Question 5

1) Quote 5

deficiency

Answer 5

“possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life”

• collective characterization

Question 6

1) Quote 6

Boats

Answer 6

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

• metaphor

Question 7

1) Quote 7

Contrarious

Answer 7

“Let us stay, rather on earth, Beloved, where the unfit contrarious moods of men recoil away”

• The action of “recoil away” is used to empathise the strength of the purity of their love. SXXII

Question 8

1) Quote 8

Paper

Answer 8

“Yet I wept for ill—this,… the papers light…”

- metaphor Sonnet XXVII

Question 9

1) Quote 9

Saints

Answer 9

““I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints”

• Allusion SXLIII

Question 10

1) Quote 10

Romp

Answer 10

““He knew that if he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God”

• irony

Question 11

1) Quote 11

Voice

Answer 11

“‘Her voice is full of money’

- metaphor

Question 12

1) Quote 12

struggles

Answer 12

““Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor”

• metaphor

Question 13

2) Q1

hair

Answer 13

“and drew me backward by the hair, and a voice said in mastery, while I strove”.
-The kinaesthetic imagery was designed to emphasise the powerful act SI

Question 14

2) Q2

Feet

Answer 14

“I drop it at thy feet”.
-Browning again uses kinaesthetic imagery again to allow her audience to visualize the act and highlight its importance. SXIII

Question 15

2) Q3

nought

Answer 15

imperative tone “If thou must love me”, to compel her lover into letting “it be for nought, except for love’s sake only”. SXIV

Question 16

2) Q4

Fluttering

Answer 16

visual imagery, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house

Question 17

2) Q5

King

Answer 17

“High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl”

metaphor

Question 18

2) Q6

Eyes

Answer 18

“Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had, were definitely gone.”

• visual imagery + characterization

Question 19

2) Q7

Womanhood

Answer 19

Sonnet XIII during the Volta, “Nay, let the silence of my womanhood commend my woman-love to thy belief”. Through the use of auditory imagery

Question 20

2) Q8

Fortitude

Answer 20

oxymoron “voiceless fortitude” to contradict and effectively critique whether the love between the persona and their partner is indeed safe within silence.

Question 21

2) Q9

Again

Answer 21

Sonnet XXI’s persona’s partners behaviour “Say it over again, and yet once over again, that thou dost love me.” The repetition of “over again” is used to emphasise the persona’s desire to hear her partner vocalise his love,

Question 22

2) Q10

stormily

Answer 22

bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily”. Fitzgerald employs the use of visual imagery to effectively emphasise the actions people took to achieve more success,

Question 23

2) Q11

Nobody

Answer 23

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” Fitzgerald uses irony as Tom is also committing an adulterous act with Mr Wilson’s wife, to portray how a husband would be able to act unfaithful to his love for his wife but swing back to it when the need arises.

Question 24

2) Q12

Unwavering

Answer 24

is criticised by Fitzgerald as through the characterisation of Gatsby, who never allowed a woman to come along and “blot out those five years of unwavering devotion”.