Chinese Cinderella Flashcards
Adeline Yen Mah
1
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cinderella
A
- connotations of neglect
- unloving family
2
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saturday again. eight weeks more
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- conscious of time passing
3
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perhaps the end of school forever
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- lack of control over life
- melodramatic dread
4
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the thought of leaving school throbbed at the back of my mind like a persistent toothache
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- not alot of control over future
- simile - painful
- increases tension of dread
5
Q
chauffer
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- disconnect to family
- wealth
6
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full of foreboding
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- fricative alliteration
- juxtaposition mention of home brings unsettling feelings
7
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wondering who had died this time
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- suggest only ever brought home for this
8
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your guess is as good as mine
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- both left in the dark
- same level as the driver
- parallel with driver
9
Q
short drive
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abandonment
10
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my heart was full of dread and i wondered what i had done wrong
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- personification
- associates being with family as bad
11
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i asked foolishly
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- self deprecating
12
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replied rudley
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- bottom of the hierachy
13
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i had forgotten
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- shows distances with family
- did not even know them moved
14
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quiet and cool
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- pathetic fallacy
- lovless home
15
Q
see me in his room
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- questions
- in disbelief
16
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overwhemlmed
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- fearful
- distrust
17
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summoned
holy of holies
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- verb - power
- hierachy
- god like image
18
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i breathed a small sigh of relief
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- ongoing questions
- mistrust
- fear
19
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sit
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- imperative
20
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dont look so scared
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- trying to control emotions
- father commands
21
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i think
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- euphamism
22
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we are proud of you
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- juxtaposition
- irony
- cant get praise from her father
23
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it is possible? am i dreaming? me the winner?
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- series of questions
- reflects low self esteem
24
Q
i was pleased to tell him you are my daughter?
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- only pleased because she achieved something
- always about his image
25
for once
- subordinate clause
- happens very rarley
26
perhaps i was the only one determined enough to enter and there were no other competitors
- self deprecating
27
approvingly
- complicated relationship
28
i asked boldly thinking it was now or never
- distance
- juxtaposition
- climax
- subservient language
29
how marvellous it was to simply be alive
- happiness and joy
- hyperbole intense happiness
30
he scoffed
- bellitilling tone
- shows his domiance authority and power over her
31
who is going to read your righting
- speaks longer then yen mah
- shatters her dreams
32
i waited in silence. i did not wish to contradict him
- short sentence paragraph
- refelcts anticipation
- obedient tone
33
you will
- repetition of modal verb
- list of commands
34
dont you agree?
- leading command
- commanding tone
35
of course i agreed
- no possibility to disagree
36
bliss was it in that dawn to be alive
- irony
- still thinks like a writer
- defiance
37
very
- highlights gratefullness
- obedient tone
