QUOTES Flashcards
Common module quotes: paragraph 1: TTSLNN
First T?
“Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason”
Common module quotes: paragraph 1: TTSLNN
Second T?
“Today there was fear, hatred and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrow.”
Common module quotes: paragraph 1: TTSLNN
S?
“She had no memories of anything before the early sixties, and the only person she had ever known who talked frequently of the days before the revolution was a grandfather who had disappeared when she was eight.”
Common module quotes: paragraph 1: TTSLNN
L?
“Life as she saw it was pretty simple. You wanted to have a good time; ‘they’, meaning the party, wanted to stop you from having it; you broke the rules best you could.”
Common module quotes: paragraph 1: TTSLNN
First N?
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible - by means of such organisations as the spies they systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the party.”
Common module quotes: paragraph 1: TTSLNN
Second N?
“Normal for people over thirty to be afraid of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which the times did not carry a paragraph describing how some - ‘child hero’ - had overheard some compromising remark and denounce his parents to the thought police.”
Common module quotes: paragraph 2: HAISD
H?
What techniques are used?
“He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life. Had it always been like this?”
Imaginative language
Rhetorical question
Common module quotes: paragraph 2: HAISD
A?
What techniques used?
“Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.”
Synecdoche
Common module quotes: paragraph 2: HAISD
I?
What techniques used?
“I love you”
Connotative language
Emotive language
Common module quotes: paragraph 2: HAISD
S?
What techniques are used?
“She had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same gesture by which a whole civilisation seemed to be annihilated.”
Find a technique
Common module quotes: paragraph 2: HAISD
D?
“D’you know about what that little girl of mine did last Saturday … -she spent the whole afternoon following a strange man. … and then handed him over to the patrol’s. … she spotted he was wearing a funny kind of shoes … so chances were he was a foreigner.”
English paper, Module A, Paragraph 1 - Preludes: TTA
First T?
Techniques?
“The morning comes to consciousness; of faint stale smells of beer; From the sawdust trampled streets; with all it’s muddy feet that press…”
Personification Sibilance Ol factory language Synecdoche Motif of time
English paper, Module A, Paragraph 1 - Preludes: TTA
Second T?
Techniques?
“That faded behind a city block; or trampled by insistent feet; At four and five and six o’clock”
Motif of time
Time passing
Fragmentation: Synecdoche
English paper, Module A, Paragraph 1 - Preludes: TTA
A?
Techniques?
“And the light crept up between the shutters; and you heard the sparrows in the gutters.”
Repetition of “and the” (seen also in ‘The journey of the Magi’
Personification
Sensory language
English paper, Module A, Paragraph 2 - Rhapsody on a Windy Night: TTIT
First T?
Techniques?
“Twelve o’clock … Half-past one … Half-past two … Half-past three”
Motif of passing time
Inconsistent time
