Thursday, February 2, 2012

First 100 pages notes

  • France starting a revolution. For example: Cask of wine breaks and everyone scrambles to drink the wine drops because they are so poor and thirsty
  • diction, apostrophe (Lorry was speaking to the ghost, an abstract concept and being)
  • antithesis- "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" (page 13)
  • Setting- uses England and France to address the theme. Also, the time period (Pre French Revolution)
  • theme- rebirth. Revolutions change a country. (example: "Recalled to Life")
  • symbolism
  • syntax- death and fate creating a metaphor
  • anaphora- repeating first phrase in the beginning of the book.
  • tone-creepy, gloomy, and dark (example: talking about death and destruction)
  • genre- historical fiction
  • dialect- "aint" and "holla" and "do ya"
  • metaphor- wine cask

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