other half of information for glass menagerie test

Question 1

dramatic license of the play

Answer 1

Tom narrates and is a character

Question 2

6 autobiographical elements

Answer 2

both had crippled sister
Tennessee Williams= tom wingfield
Tennessee Williams lived in st. louis like the wingfield's
both were poetic artists
both had hysterical mothers
both wrote to escape
both influenced by D.H. Lawrence
both of their dad's were never home

Question 3

3 examples of dramatic irony

Answer 3

we know how the lights went out
we know jim is engaged before amanda does
jim doesn’t know that laura likes him

Question 4

3 examples of situational irony

Answer 4

jim is engaged
jim is the same guy that laura had a crush on in high school
laura isn’t really going to college
amanda thinks that a man can rescue them

Question 5

bird imagery in the novel

Answer 5

penguins
pluming the bird; feathering the nest
birdlike women

Question 6

storm is a symbol of

Answer 6

inner turmoil

Question 7

hyperbole used in tom’s rant

Answer 7

when tom says he is going to the opium dens and hogan gangs

Question 8

difference in monologue, exposition, and soliloquy

Answer 8

monologue- a long speech by one actor
exposition- the part of a play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced.
soliloquy- an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.