Form and Structure GapFill

The following quiz relates to Dickens' use of language in the novel, and Assessment Objective 2 (AO2).

In Chapter XXXIX, Pip says of the weather: 'It was wretched weather; stormy and wet, stormy and wet; and mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets.' This is an example of   personificationanaphoraonomatopoeiaconsonance.

In Chapter XXXVIII, Pip observes of Miss Havisham: 'From Estella, she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.' This is an example of   melodramahyperbolepersonificationmetaphor.

At Christmas dinner in Chapter IV, Mr. Wopsle says to Pip: 'swine were the companions of the prodigal'. This is an example of   ironyallusionapostrophepersonification.

There are many images relating to rivers and the sea in Great Expectations, such as ' We lived at the top of the last house, and the wind rushing up the river shook the house that night, like discharges of cannon, or breakings of a sea'. (Chapter XXXIX). The river and the sea are examples of  phantasmsimilemotifallusion in the novel as a whole.

Pip's narrative contains a lot of commercial vocabulary, with words such as 'account' and 'speculation(s)' recurring multiple times. This commercial vocabulary is an example of  a synecdochea colloquialisma metaphora semantic field.

In Chapter XXXVIII, Drummle is described as follows: 'The Spider, as Mr Jaggers had called him, was used to lying in wait...'. This is an example of   personificationzoomorphismhyperbolemetonymy.

In Chapter III, when Pip brings Magwitch the stolen food, he observes: 'I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog's way of eating, and the man's'. This is an example of   similemetaphoreuphemismhyperbole.

As applied to a young man with great potential to grow, the name Pip may be considered:   an aptronyma puna metaphoran oxymoron.

In Chapter II, Pip says of Mrs. Joe: 'She was not a good-looking woman, my sister; and I had a general impression that she must have made Joe Gargery marry her by hand'. This is an example of   ironic understatementhyperboleoxymoronsynecdoche.

In Chapter I, Magwitch is introduced in this way: '"Hold your noise" cried a terrible voice...' . This is an example of   metaphorsynecdochehyperbolezoomorphism.

In Chapter VII, when Pip enters Miss Havisham's house, he observes: 'I saw that everything within my view that ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow'. Here, and elsewhere in the novel, 'yellow' is   a metonyman imagea symbolan adjective of decay.

In Chapter XIX, Pip describes his initial disappointment upon trying on his new suit: 'Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation'. This is   a non-sequitura metomyman aphorismhyperbole.

In Chapter VII, in the description of Miss Havisham's decaying surroundings Dickens creates a   overtoneairmoodtone of despair.

In Chapter XI, Pip observes Camilla and Sarah Pocket flattering Miss Havisham because they wish to inherit from her when she dies. Pip describes the women as 'toadies'. This is an example of   zoomorphismpersonificationa colloquialismsimile.

In Chapter IV, among the adults at Christmas dinner, Pip says of himself: 'I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena...'. This is an example of   hyperboleallusionsimilemetaphor.