The Book Thief Written And Visual Techniques

Question 1

Visual: the standover man

Answer 1

“It makes me understand, that the best standover man I have ever known isn’t a man at all…”

Question 2

Visual- the wordshaker

Answer 2

The people couldn’t believe what they were seeing, when the word shaker and the young man set foot into the world; the tree finally began to show the axe marks

Question 3

Symbols- colours

Answer 3

“By the time I was finished, the sky was yellow, like burning news paper”

Question 4

Symbols- hans accordion

Answer 4

“A voice played the notes in her head, this, it said, is your accordion”

Question 5

Symbols - book titles

Answer 5

“The gravediggers’s hand book, a twelve step guild to grave digging success”

Question 6

Symbols- book titles SS

Answer 6

“The Shoulder Shrug applied itself to her ribcage”

Question 7

Foreshadowing

Answer 7

“I saw the book thief three times”

Question 8

Foreshadowing

Answer 8

“A boy arrived first, with cluttered breath and what appeared to be a toolkit”

Question 9

Imagery

Answer 9

“A portrait of Rudy Steiner: July 1941
Strings of mud clenched his face. His tie a pendulum, long dead in its clock. His lemon lamplit hair dishevelled and he wears a sad but absurd smile.”