Silas Marner quotes

Question 1

SW: the beginning of the book

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‘spinning wheels’, ‘spinning wheels’

Question 2

SW: Silas confronts William Dane

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‘you have woven a plot’

Question 3

SW: His live became…

Answer 3

‘weaving and hoarding’

Question 4

SW: noun

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‘monotony’

Question 5

FQ: Start of text

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‘in the days’

Question 6

FQ: Scary quote

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‘old demon worship’

Question 7

Hearth: a description of a scene

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‘in the light of the evening hearth’

Question 8

Hearth: a contrast

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‘the little light he posessed spread its beams so narrowly’…‘blackness of light’

Question 9

Hearth: money

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‘five bright guineas’

Question 10

Hearth: personification

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‘bright faces’

Question 11

Hearth: Silas blocks out the light

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‘closed his shutters’, and ‘drew out his gold’

Question 12

Silas: first description of him

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‘linen weaver’

Question 13

Silas; spinning wheel link

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‘tread mill attitude’

Question 14

Silas: a … … man

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‘pallid young man’

Question 15

Silas: his eyes

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‘brown’, ‘unexampled’

Question 16

Silas: a contrast

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‘dead man come to life’ with ‘exemplary life’

Question 17

Silas: a description that ends a long line

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‘condemned, to solitude’

Question 18

Silas: religion

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‘ardent faith’

Question 19

Silas: normal description

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‘sane and honest’

Question 20

Silas: repetition

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‘despair in his soul’, ‘stunned by despair’

Question 21

Silas: a shocking moment

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‘a God of lies’

Question 22

Silas: his life is deteriorating

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his ‘face and figure shrank’

Question 23

Silas: a contrast of his eyes

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‘trusty and dreamy’ with ‘very small, like tiny grain’

Question 24

Silas: decay

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‘withered and yellow’

Question 25

Silas: his soul

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'truthful simple'

Question 26

Raveloe: echoes

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'where many of the old echoes lingered'

Question 27

Raveloe: church

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'barren parishes'

Question 28

Raveloe: church 2

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'fine old church'

Question 29

Raveloe: lazy townfolk

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'live in rollicking fashion'

Question 30

Raveloe: tricolon

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'keep jolly Christmas, Whitsun and Easter tide'

Question 31

Raveloe: the pub

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'the Rainbow'

Question 32

Raveloe: personification

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'orchards looking lazy'

Question 33

Raveloe: plenty

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'neglected plenty', 'large church in the wide courtyard'

Question 34

Raveloe: humour

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'purple faced farmers'

Question 35

Raveloe: food

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'men supped heavily'

Question 36

William: Sarah

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'Sarah did not object to William's...presence'

Question 37

William: Silas

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'friend', 'brother'

Question 38

Lantern Yard: religion

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'eyes which... represented God's people'

Question 39

Lantern Yard: the lots

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'the lots declared', 'drawing lots'

Question 40

Lantern Yard: the walls

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'whitewashed walls'

Question 41

Lantern Yard: church

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'little pews'

Question 42

Lantern Yard: alliteration

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'pitched in a peculiar key of petition'

Question 43

Lantern Yard: collective noun

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'swell of voices'

Question 44

Eppie: foreshadowing

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'a second great change'

Question 45

The Red House: description

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'a large red house'

Question 46

The Red House: fountain

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'without...the fountain of love and fear'

Question 47

Dunstan: contrast

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'blonde face' of Godfrey vs the 'flushed' face of Dunstan

Question 48

Dunstan: face

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'thick-set'

Question 49

Dunstan: appearance

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'heavy looking'

Question 50

Dunstan: aggressive

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'in a mocking tone', 'sneering'

Question 51

Dunstan: masculine lexis

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'beating the butt-end', 'whip'

Question 52

Dunstan: cunning

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'diabolical cunning'