Personal flaws Cat Flashcards

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‘She draws in, hunches her shoulders, raises her arms with fists clenched, shuts her eyes’

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Asyndetic list of dynamic verb phrases, simile. Maggie is finally alone and reveals her insecurities. Reduced to a helpless child.

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‘Fat old body’ BD-BM

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double pre-modifying descriptive adjectives. Similar to BD’s description yet used in negative way

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‘Give me a drink… Give me my crutch.’ B

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Imperative. B doesn’t care about the power structure of the family and therefore doesn’t care what the family think of him

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‘He wheezes and and pants and sniffs through his nervous speech’ BD

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Polysyndetic tripling of dynamic verbs- BD’s health is his weakness- falling into failure

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‘Mae will you let me talk please?’ G

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Question, modal verb ‘will’ Gooper has to ask Mae to let him talk showing her assertive personality

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‘I’m taking a short trip to echo spring’ B

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Common noun ‘trip’ irony- Brick likens getting drunk to travelling- takes him away from reality

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