Havisham Analysis

Question 1

Beloved sweetheart bastard

Answer 1

Oxymoron- conflicting emotions

Question 2

Not a day since then I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it

Answer 2

Ironic, normally pray for positive things, not negative

Question 3

Dark green pebbles for eyes

Answer 3

Metaphor- envy, eyes cold and hard

Question 4

Ropes on the back of my hand I could strangle with

Answer 4

Metaphor- veins look like ropes as she is praying so hard

Question 5

Spinster.

Answer 5

Short sentence- spinster/alone. Word isolated too. She is single

Question 6

(Spinster. I) Stink and remember

Answer 6

Word choice- wedding dress decaying

Question 7

Cawing noooo

Answer 7

Onomatopoeia- state of despair, death, pain made her animalistic

Question 8

Slewed

Answer 8

Word choice- her image is distorted, she doesn’t recognize herself

Question 9

Puce curses that are sounds, not words

Answer 9

Word choice- hates him so much, she can’t speak

Question 10

(…..) it’s (……) it’s

Answer 10

Word choice- dehumanizing him

Question 11

Bite

Answer 11

Ambiguous- causing her ex fiancé pain or biting her young in her sleep

Question 12

(…….) Loves

Hate (……)

Answer 12

Enjambment- shows how liked the two emotions are (near yet so far)

Question 13

Balloon bursting

Answer 13

Metaphor- here heart is st breaking point

Question 14

Bang.

Answer 14

Onomatopoeia- jolts her from her emotions

Question 15

Give me a make corpus for a long slow honeymoon

Answer 15

Hyperbole- can’t stand to be with a living man

Question 16

B-b-b-breaks

Answer 16

Plosive alliteration- (hard sounds)- not just her heart, broken mentally