MODULE C: Quotes Flashcards
Crafty Feeling: numbered sections with subtitles.
“8. Step Away from the Vehicle.”
Crafty Feeling: mock-scientific discourse.
OPD - Obsessive perspective disorder.
Crafty Feeling: light-hearted tone.
“You can’t decide whether you’re the fraudulent idiot or your reader is.”
Spotty-Handed Vilenesses - anaphora.
“Novels are not sociological textbooks, novels are not political tacts, novels are not how-to books.”
Spotty-Handed Villainesses - critical tone
“Were women to be condemned to virtue for life.”
Spotty-Handed Villainesses - rhetorical questions.
“Hadn’t men been giving women a bad reputation for centuries?”
Noel Pearsons Eulogy - cumulative listing.
Includes a paragraph-long list of progressive changes to laws made by Whitlam.
Noel Pearsons Eulogy - ethos.
“For one born estranged from the nation’s citizenship…of a marginal people.”
Noel Pearsons Eulogy - anecdote.
“I once took him on a tour to my village and we spoke.”
Noel Pearsons Eulogy - call to action.
“We salute this old man.”
Love and Honour - intertextuality.
Title - from William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Prize speech - “we should write about the old verities. Love and honour and pity and pride…”
Love and Honour - sensory imagery.
“Rain fell on the tin shed like distant denotations of firecrackers.”
Love and Honour - mise-en-abyme.
Nam’s father tells a story within Nam’s story of his personal experiences of war atrocities.
