mocks quotes !! Flashcards
life of pi - dramatic/word choice
“richard parker”
“Without Richard Parker, I wouldn’t be alive today to tell you my story.”
life of pi - God. word choice. religious imagery?
“And so it goes with God.”
life of pi - repetition of understanding/rhethorical question
“The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?”
life of pi - word choice (adjective).
“When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.”
Death and the king’s horseman - metaphor (exaggeration) [Iyaloja]
“the world is in your hands.”
Death and the king’s horseman → word choice (understand) [olunde]
“I discovered that you have no respect for what you do not understand.”
Death and the king’s horseman → word choice; thrown. [jane pilkings]
“Nonsense. Life should never be thrown deliberately away”
Death and the king’s horseman → repetition of this phrase. connotations. [olunde]
“I have no father, eater of left-overs.”
Othello → paradox (nonensical) [iago]
“I am not what I am.”
Othello → ironic / foreshadowing [othello]
“My life upon her faith.”
Othello → repetition of ‘love’ [othello]
“But I love thee; and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again.”
Othello → ironic [iago]
“Men should be what they seem.”
