The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon

Question 1

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”

Answer 1

Logos

Question 2

“I had to get out of the house. Father had murdered Wellington. That meant he could also murder me”

Answer 2

Truncated sentences

Question 3

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog’s thinking. … they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”

Answer 3

Truncated sentences

Inference

Question 4

Emoticons

Answer 4

Orthography

Question 5

“Christopher, do you understand that I love you?”

Answer 5

First-person

Question 6

“I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us”

Answer 6

Colloquialism

Question 7

“If I am in a place I know, like home, or school, or the bus, or the shop, or the street, I have seen almost everything in it beforehand and all I have to do is look at the things that have changed or moved.”

Answer 7

Anaphora