ATLWCS Techniques Flashcards
(T) “Your problem is that you still believe your own life”
Paradox
(T) “It’s only numbers,” “they’re more than numbers.”
Contrast
(T) “All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
Rhetorical Question
(T) “How do you fight a system?’ ‘You try.’”
None
(T) “I am only alive because I have not yet died”
None
(T) “Never has he felt such a hunger to belong”
None
(T) “the interests of his time”
Parallelism
(T) “they move about with only themselves in mind”
Juxtaposition of Petits Recits
(T) “Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world.”
Euphemism
(T) “How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
Authorial Surrogacy
(T) “You must never stop believing”
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(T) “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever”
Dramatic irony
(T) “bootless ’tis to tell you we will go”,
Indirect characterisation
(t) counterfeit…the true and perfect image of life”
Juxtaposition through oxymoron
