english quotes

Question 1

biblical allusion

Answer 1

“Behold my maid Bilhah. She shall bear upon my knees.”
- rachel and lea

Question 2

Mantra

Answer 2

“Waste not, want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Question 3

Religous language

Answer 3

“We are two-legged wombs, that’s all: sacred vessels…”
- synechdoche

Question 4

zoomoprhic

Answer 4

“I wait, washed, brushed, fed, like a prize pig.”

Question 5

false hope

Answer 5

“She’s a flag on a hilltop, showing us… we too can be saved.”

Question 6

surveillance (commander)

Answer 6

“Under his Eye”

Question 7

depressing

Answer 7

“They’ve removed anything you could tie a rope to”

Question 8

Lydia famouse

Answer 8

“Freedom to and Freedom from”

Question 9

juxtoposition

Answer 9

“so sinful, so free.

Question 10

tourists

Answer 10

They wear lipstick, red… like scrawls on a washroom wall”.

Question 11

way of discussion with ofglen

Answer 11

“Amputated speech.”

Question 12

Serena joy’s view

Answer 12

“I am a reproach to her; and a necessity”

Question 13

meta 1

Answer 13

“You don’t tell a story only to yourself”

Question 14

meta 2

Answer 14

“I wish You’d answer. I feel so alone”

Question 15

meta 3

Answer 15

“If its a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending”

Question 16

commander

Answer 16

“he’s given no evidence, of softness… to be a man, like that… It must be very silent”

Question 17

scrabble

Answer 17

“He encourages me to do it too… make words with them that don’t exist, words like smurt and crup, giggling over them”.

Question 18

offred to the commander

Answer 18

“like an attentive pet, prick-eared and eager to perform”

Question 19

Serena ceremony

Answer 19

“Serena has begun to cry… She always does this, the night of the Ceremony.”

Question 20

Serena nothing

Answer 20

“you could have left me something”

Question 21

meta historical

Answer 21

“This is a reconstruction”

Question 22

naming system

Answer 22

“Offred” “Ofglen”

Question 23

Lydia women in 1980s

Answer 23

“They were lazy women. They were sluts…”

Question 24

historical description of commander

Answer 24

“a man of considerable ingenuity”

Question 25

Historical Offred source

Answer 25

“This item — I hesitate to use the word document…”

Question 26

pentheus insult

Answer 26

“Any insult should provoke A quick response from real men. Never more than when we are Humiliated by women”

Question 27

Pentheus irony towards dionysus

Answer 27

“Oh, you’re very good looking (At least that’s what a woman would say,) [….] But I could take you in a fight”.

Question 28

Pentheus expression

Answer 28

“dancing in front of the mirror. Bakkhically… just to see”

Question 29

Foreshadowing from dionysus

Answer 29

“Poor Pentheus. Tonight you’ll represent Thebes alone. Alone you’ll witness the truth and… come to your understanding”.

Question 30

plosive

Answer 30

‘“Her eyes burned with Bakkhic bloodlust. She could not recognise her son.”

Question 31

anagnorisis

Answer 31

“Oh no. No. No. No. Pentheus. No”

Question 32

anagnorisis extended

Answer 32

“See how all tomorrow’s hopes have turned into today’s black emptiness”.

Question 33

Pentheus on drunkness

Answer 33

“when drunk each different woman slips away to a lonely place and makes herself available for sex”

Question 34

Royal women attitude originally

Answer 34

Semele being labeled as a “simple slut” during her pregnancy with Zeus’ child.

Question 35

messenger resembling patriarchal values

Answer 35

“horns were thrown down to the ground by mere girls”

Question 36

worst thing

Answer 36

“The very worst thing would be to have women laughing at me”

Question 37

invective

Answer 37

“Who makes our women into sluts”

Question 38

Dionysus ironic contrast

Answer 38

“Man? Woman? It was a close run thing”

Question 39

alliteration

Answer 39

My mighty Maenads.

Question 40

meta dionysus

Answer 40

“I knew the ending when I wrote the script, but still – to see it – here/In front of me, played out for real…”

Question 41

Teireisias foreshadowing

Answer 41

“The god you mock is beyond you. Beyond your words – beyond anything you can imagine”

Question 42

ironic, popular allusion

Answer 42

“he wouldn’t be seen dead in women’s clothes… But when young men get drunk don’t they just love to put on dresses”