CHARACTERS
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Focus on the character of Mrs Ivimey .
a) Pick out all details of Mrs Ivimey's appearance.
b) How does Mrs Ivimey's speech characterise her? Comment on the:
- vocabulary
- syntax
- imagery.
c) Why does Mrs Ivimey almost acknowledge that she was the young girl in the story?
d) Find evidence in the text that she is:
passionate
imaginative
impulsive
romantic
artistic
other_____________
STYLE
1. In the passage "HE was alone," … for ever and ever" identify the following stylistic devices:
- epithet
- simile
- hyperbole
- repetition
- ellipsis
- parallel constructions
- detachment
How would you define the tone of this passage?
calm, emotional, solemn, ironic, playful, other:
What kind of atmosphere is created?
- dreamlike, unreal, fairytale, other
2. Mrs Ivimey re-creates with such energy the vivid scene and the excitement of the young man who threw down his telescope and ran through the fields to the young woman, that she seems to have been there herself.
a) Name the stylistic devices that help to convey the excitement in the following:
- And then . . . look. . . . A man. . . . A man! He came round the corner. He seized her in his arms! They kissed . . . they kissed."
b) The passage has a poetic intensity and a pronounced rhythm. What syntactical peculiarities create the rhythm? How do repeated breaks in the narrative contribute to the impact of the description of the process of looking through the telescope?
· it accelerates the rhythm and increases the tension
· it slows down the rhythm and makes the scene almost unreal
· it creates an impression of what is happening rather than going into detail
c) The word focussed is repeated four times. Do you think the word is used to evoke:
a) the physical conditions?
b) the psychological conditions?
c) a mixture of both?
3. Focus on the narrative technique.
a) What type of speech dominates the story?
b) Find an example of uttered represented speech.
Link each narrative technique to the purpose it serves in the text.
| A | B |
| third-person narration | tells the story |
| dialogue | gives the narration a character's perspective |
| monologue | sets the scene |
| uttered represented speech | makes the frame |
4. Comment on the effect of juxtaposition of historical and modern terms in the opening paragraphs (chandeliers, searchlight, air force, aircraft, antennae).
5. What moods and tense forms are used to establish links between the two temporal planes( the frame and the story)?
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