Module A: Texts In Time Flashcards
Mourning
Highly emotive description
Constant and deep grief” repeated in “the most poignant way.
Frankenstein
Oh Frankenstein! Generous and self devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask you to pardon me?
Charlie
Rhetorical question
How can I move thee? …goodness and compassion
Angel
Antithesis biblical allusion
“But I am rather the fallen angel”
Vanishing
Metaphor
… But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror filled my heart
Enemies
Negative connotation
Begone… We are enemies
The devil
Bleak dystopia setting establishing shot of subordination with dominating skyscrapers and explosions
Playing
Tyrell consumed in promethean glory ‘plays god’
Costuming - thick glasses
“A little out of my jurisdiction
God
Biblical undertones
- drives a nail into his hand close up shot
- release of dove low angle shot
Daria
Superlative
Miserable beyond all living things
Comparative imagery
Everywhere I see bliss
Lifting
Visual imagery
“Yellow skin scarcely covered the work of his muscles and arteries”
Prometheus
Recurring mythical allusions to Prometheus
How dangerous is the squire net of knowledge
The ancient mariner
Inter textual reference to Coleridge’s “the ancient mariner”
Shall kill no albatross… Or if I should come back… As woeful as the ancient mariner
Searching
Visual and tactile imagery
I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks
Friend
Dualastic sentence
I was benevolent… Misery made a friend