The Werewolf. Key quotations Flashcards
It is a Northern country; they have cold weather, they have cold hearts.
tricolon, declarative, negative connotations. Rhythm of oral narrative, balanced syntactically parallel phrase equates weather with cold hearts. foreshadows the end of the story
A bed, a stool, a table.
Tricolon, no verbs=minor sentence, monosyllabic.
suggests simplicity of forest and that it is very basic.
Anyone will tell you that.
No ‘they’, free direct speech.
‘Anyone’ suggesting it is common knowledge and that everyone is aware.
“Bleak and touching townships of the dead”
Pre-modifier to enhance the description, metaphor, connotations of superstition, extended noun phrasing.
“Anyone will tell you that”
Connotations of superstition, use of free direct speech, incongruous, declarative.
‘Squaking, squeaking’
Onomatopoeia, animalistic sounds
