Havisham

Question 0

Title

‘Havisham’

Answer 0

“Miss” -omitted
Shows her aversion to her un-married state
Takes away her femininity-just a ‘thing’

Question 1

Beloved sweetheart bastard.

Answer 1

Oxymoron- contrast between love and hate
Conflicted feelings
Alliteration- suggests words were spat out (plosive)

Question 2

Not a day since then

I haven’t wished him dead.

Answer 2

Thoughts of revenge/bitterness

Enjambement- hate is spilling out, uncontrollable

Question 3

Prayed for it

So hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes

Answer 3

Metaphor- suggests her experience has left her hardened

Green has connotations of jealousy

Question 4

ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with.

Answer 4

Metaphor- violence
Refers to veins on the back of hands- she has ages significantly
Lexical choice- disturbing, to do this a person would have to be close to the victim
Aggression is clear

Question 5

Spinster.

Answer 5

Single word shows her social label
Minor sentence
Demonstrates that she almost spits the word out in disgust

Question 6

I stink and remember.

Answer 6

She no longer takes Care of herself

Question 7

Whole days

In bed cawing Nooooo at the wall;

Answer 7

Onomatopoeia- birds squawk
A harsh cry
Angry/upset

Question 8

The dress

Yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe;

Answer 8

Worn the dress so long it has yellowed and is dirty

Personification- suggests she is highly emotional unable to remove the dress

Question 9

The slewed mirror

Answer 9

Fractured mirror
Like her life
Broken as she is

Question 10

Her, myself, who did this

To me?

Answer 10

3rd person 
1st
1st
Pronouns split personality 
Refers to reflection