language

Question 1

“nadsat”

Answer 1

the part-Cockney, part-Russian patois Alex uses to narrate the story.

Question 2

Characters’ linguistic differences

Answer 2

articulate their social differences, and this allows Alex to shrewdly shift between registers of speech to suit his needs.

Question 3

To deceive adults

Answer 3

Alex affects a “gentleman’s goloss [voice],” an almost laughably courteous mannerism punctuated by “pardons,” “sirs,” and “madams.”

Question 4

point of view

Answer 4

The narrator speaks in the first person, subjectively describing only what he sees, hears, thinks, and experiences.

Question 5

tone

Answer 5

Irreverent; comical; hateful; playful; juvenile

Question 6

language in the novel

Answer 6

works as a literary device that seeks to alienate the reader from the world of the protagonist-narrator.

initially barred from making moral judgments of Alex because we are shielded and removed from some of Alex’s brutality against others