Identity

Question 1

The quote about Heart & Memory

Answer 1

A heart has no shape or limit. … It’s much like your memory, in that sense.

Techniques: Simile, personification
Characters: R, Unnamed narrator
Chapter 13

Question 2

What does the heart symbolize in relation to memory?

Answer 2

A heart has no shape or limits… it’s much like your memory, in that sense.

Techniques: Simile, metaphor
Characters: R, Unnamed narrator
Chapter 11

Question 3

How is the soul described in the text?

Answer 3

His soul is too dense. If he comes out, he’ll dissolve into pieces

Techniques: Metaphor, imagery and symbolism
Characters: Unnamed narrator, Old man, R
Chapter 20

Question 4

What happens when you lose your voice according to the text?

Answer 4

When you lost your voice, you lost the ability to make sense of yourself

Techniques: Metaphor, personification
Characters: Unnamed narrator, Typing teacher
Chapter 15

Question 5

What does the narrator imagine holding in their hands?

Answer 5

I imagine it fitting perfectly in my palms, soft and slippery, like gelatin that hasn’t quite set

Holding a heart

Techniques: Imagery, metaphor, personification and symbolism
Characters: Unnamed narrator, R
Chapter 11

Question 6

What sensations return to the narrator when they sink into warmth?

Answer 6

the sensations of all the things that have disappeared come back to me

Techniques: Imagery, metaphor, personification and symbolism
Characters: Unnamed narrator, R
Chapter 11

Question 7

How do the hearts of the narrator and R differ?

Answer 7

Yours is overflowing with warmth and life and sounds and smells, but mine is growing cold and hard

Techniques: Imagery, metaphor, personification and symbolism
Characters: Unnamed narrator, R
Chapter 26

Question 8

Where do memories live according to the text?

Answer 8

I suppose memories live here and there in the body

Techniques: Metaphor, personification, imagery and symbolism
Characters: Unnamed narrator, Old man
Chapter 24

Question 9

What does the narrator hear that night?

Answer 9

I thought I could hear the sound of my memory burning that night

Techniques: Imagery, metaphor, personification and symbolism
Characters: Unnamed narrator, Old man
Chapter 20

Question 10

What words thrilled the narrator when spoken by their mother?

Answer 10

Ribbon, bell, emerald, stamp… like the names of little girls from distant countries

Techniques: Simile, imagery, symbolism and personification
Characters: Unnamed narrator, Narrator’s mother
Chapter 1

Question 11

What happens to the hearts as things get thinner?

Answer 11

But as things got thinner, more full of holes, our hearts got thinner, too, diluted somehow

Techniques: Analogy, imagery and symbolism
Characters: Narrator’s mother
Chapter 7

Question 12

On Identity Old Man says

Answer 12

we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives

Techniques: Symbolism
Characters: Old Man
Chapter IDK