Power Flashcards
Men & books burning
*‘Men who start by burning books end by burning other men’?
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Techniques: Foreshadowing
Characters: Unnamed narrator, Old man
Chapter: 19
What does the old man suggest about places for people with full hearts?
I don’t know. Maybe there’s a place out there where people whose hearts aren’t empty can go on living.
Techniques: Symbolism and foreshadowing
Characters: Old man, Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 14
What does the quote about leaving bits of ourselves behind imply?
Hair, sweat, fingernails, tears…any of which can be tested. No one can escape.
Techniques: Imagery, symbolism and foreshadowing
Characters: R
Chapter: 4
What does the unnamed narrator express about ownership in a chaotic world?
But in a world turned upside down, things I thought were mine and mine alone can be taken away
Techniques: Imagery and symbolism
Characters: Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 18
What metaphor is used to describe the difficulty of finding oneself?
If my body were cut up in pieces and those pieces mixed with those of other bodies, and then if someone told me, “Find your left eye,” I suppose it would be difficult to do so.
Techniques: Hyperbole, imagery, metaphor and irony
Characters: Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 18
What does the unnamed narrator compare erasing someone’s voice to?
an insect will fall silent if you cut off its antennae? It will just sit there, as if frozen, and even refuse to eat.
Techniques: Irony, imagery, symbolism and metaphor
Characters: Unnamed narrator, Typing teacher
Chapter: 15
What feeling does the unnamed narrator sense from the objects taken from the cabin?
the objects we had taken must have been shocked when we pulled them out into the world. I could almost sense their fear, coming through the bags.
Techniques: Metaphor, symbolism and imagery
Characters: Old man, Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 23
What does the old man say about worrying and fate?
You have to stop worrying about things like that. … We’re all going to die anyway, someday, so what’s the difference? We simply have to leave things to fate.
Techniques: Symbolism
Characters: Old man, Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 19
What happens when you lose your voice according to the typing teacher?
You’ll live among the fading voices trapped in these typewriters, and I’ll be here with you, giving you instructions.
Techniques: Metaphor, imagery, personification and reassurance
Characters: Typing teacher, Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 15
What fear does the unnamed narrator express about the disappearance of words?
And what will happen if words disappear?
Techniques: Symbolism and imagery
Characters: Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 4
What paradox is presented regarding memory and the body?
In recompense for a mind that was able to retain everything, every memory, perhaps it was necessary that the body gradually fade away.
Techniques: Juxtaposition, personification, paradox and alliteration
Characters: Unnamed narrator
Chapter: 14
