Techniques

Question 1

HMT - Analepsis (fire)

Answer 1

‘parts of women’s bodies, turning to black ash in the air.’

Question 2

Framed narrative

Answer 2

“Strange and harrowing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it—thus!”

Question 3

HMT - Symbolism

Answer 3

The tulips are red, a darker crimson towards the stem, as if they have been cut.

Question 4

The creature’s eloquence

Answer 4

‘I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness.’

Question 5

Victor’s hypocrisy

Answer 5

‘I felt as if I had committed some great crime…I was guiltless.’

Question 6

The Commander’s hypocrisy (Jezebels)

Answer 6

‘you can’t cheat Nature… Nature demands variety, for men.’

Question 7

Offred’s inaction

Answer 7

‘Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby.

We meant it, which is the bad part.’

Question 8

Frankenstein - Satanic imagery

Answer 8

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Question 9

HMT - Twisting of religion

Answer 9

All flesh is weak. All flesh is grass, I corrected her.

Question 10

HMT - Analepsis (after lost job)

Answer 10

‘We are not each other’s, any more. Instead , I am his.’