literary device quotes

Question 1

“For an instant he was happy in his dream but when he awoke he felt completely spattered with bird shit”

Answer 1

foreshadows

Question 2

“Dreamed that he was alone in a tinfoil airplane and flying through the almond trees (watchfulness) without bumping into anything”

Answer 2

foreshadows

Question 3

“the weather was funereal”

Answer 3

foreshadows

Question 4

“Any dream about birds means good health”

Answer 4

magical realism, motif, animalistic imagery -> fatal coincidences

Question 5

“the men who were going to kill him”

Answer 5

repeated

Question 6

“thunder of war”

Answer 6

Magical realism, the incident between Ibrihim Nasar and a servant girl that influenced S.N to not carry weapons

Question 7

“Trying to put the broken mirror of memory back together from so many scattered shards”

Answer 7

Memory holds bias, the townspeople greatly influence the past to abide by their societal regulation metaphor

Question 8

“The eternal headache that her son had left her”

Answer 8

The effect of his death, the townspeople cannot rid their guilt and are forced to feel accountable for his murder symbol

Question 9

“From her he had inherited his instinct”

Answer 9

irony

Question 10

“Her son not to get soaked in the rain”

Answer 10

Motif which highlights the unreliability of memory

Question 11

“He’d inherited from his father”

Answer 11

Behaviour is inherited this way, treatment of women, value of machismo, pressure to uphold duty

Question 12

“From his father he learned at a very early age the manipulation of firearms, his love for horses and the master of high-flying birds of prey”

Answer 12

Birds of prey=birds who hunt other animals for their personal gain + for sustenance

Question 13

“Good arts of valour and prudence”

Answer 13

ironic

Question 14

“spare those poor boys from the horrible duty that’s fallen on them”

Answer 14

repetition of ‘poor boys’

Question 15

“surrounded by panting dogs”

Answer 15

foreshadows, cyclical nature of predatory nature as they wealthy assume that they are excluded from this social system

Question 16

“two women who were disembowelling the rabbits on the stove”

Answer 16

foreshadows

Question 17

”clutching the knives wrapped in newspapers”

Answer 17

motif which shows their stress over the pressure to murder S.N

Question 18

“Touched by the breath of tragedy”

Answer 18

metaphor

Question 19

”the hunt for love is haughty falconry”

Answer 19

animalistic imagery which highlights the predatory nature of the wealthy, male dominated/hegemony hunt

Question 20

“Their trained birds”

Answer 20

Symbolically shows that this poor treatment of women is cyclical as this behaviour is passed onto generations of males

Question 21

“A man accustomed to killing defenceless animals”

Answer 21

Animalistic imagery, hints that men prey on the weak and vulnerable (women from low-socioeconomic backgrounds)

Question 22

“snorting like a dragon”

Answer 22

Simile, about the boat, mystical/spiritual creature which is extremely powerful and superior

Question 24

“In honour of the bishop”

Answer 24

repeated

Question 25

“Who was just coming into bloom”

Answer 25

Floral imagery/symbolism

Question 26

“The time has come for you to be tamed”

Answer 26

Animalistic imagery

Question 27

“Victoria Guzman showed him the bloody knife”

Answer 27

Foreshadows, hints at the possibility that he deserved his fate and additionally shows the resistance of Colombian women

Question 28

”among the cages of sleeping birds”

Answer 28

Symbol for the women of the town who are imprisoned shows the connection with violence and love (as the objects of their desire are protected but limited)

Question 29

example of magic realist element

Answer 29

Chronicle’s magic realist elements are visible is Santiago’s representation as an almost supernatural being when “there wasn’t a drop of blood” when the twins first began to stab him and a feeling of unreality is further created

Question 30

example of a juxtaposition

Answer 30

At several points the flashbacks provide inconsistent or contradictory accounts + juxtaposition of Santago’s neighbour Argenida viewing him as “handsomer than ever” whilst her father’s defining memory revolves around “the terrible smell of shit”

Question 31

example of an emotional tone

Answer 31

“he was aware of the prudish disposition of his world, and he must have known that the twins’ simple nature was incapable of resisting an insult”