English pp2 quotes Flashcards
foreshadowing 1984
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
-telescreens, the Thought Police, and the siblings spying on the parents
foreshadowing ADH
It would upset our mutual relations altogether; our beautiful happy home would no longer be what it is now.
the strange man won’t do mother any harm.
hyperbole 1984
danger of totalitarianism
a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting three hundred million people all with the same face.
hyperbole 1984
W’s rebellion
The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see
1984 party’s slogan
paradox
war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength
2 plus 2 makes five
conflict
retorical question
‘Why should it be? And if it were, what difference would that make?
1984
abuse of power
personification
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
imagery ADH
female entrapment
materialization
Nora. Here is shelter for you; here I will protect you like a hunted dove that I have saved from a hawk’s claws; I will bring peace to your poor beating heart.
irony ADH
awakening
No, no, I won’t look at it. The whole thing shall be nothing but a bad dream to me.
we are saved!
dramatic irony
gender role
But no man can be expected to sacrifice his honour, even for the person he loves.
Nora: Millions of women have done it.
gender role ADH
direct address
Oh, I often got so tired, so tired. But it was great fun, though, sitting there working and earning money. It was almost like being a man.
metaphor ADH
name
gender role
“my squirrel”
“my little skylark”
our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child;
ADH mood
sympathetic, tragic, ironic, and highly satiric
1984 mood
satirical, sarcastic and ironic at times, intense during love affairs.
symbolism
1984
Big Brother
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
ominous rulers
omnipresent eyes of the party