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The following quiz relates to Dickens' use of language in the novel, and to Assessment Objective 2 (AO2).
a. Identify an example of metaphor in each of the following short extracts.
Chapter XLVI: She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.
Chapter XLV: At about the same time, the eyes on the wall acquired a new expression, and in every one of those staring rounds I saw written, DON’T GO HOME. .
Chapter VIII: I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom. .
Chapter XLIV: ... the spectral figure of Miss Havisham, her hand still covering her heart, seemed all resolved into a ghastly stare of pity ofand remorse..
Chapter XLVII: Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of the robe of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know! .
Chapter XXVII: … So, I presented Joe to Herbert, who held out his hand; but Joe backed from it, and held on by the bird’s nest..
Chapter XL: True, I had no Avenger in my service now, but I was looked after by an inflammatory old female, assisted by an animated rag-bag whom she called her niece .
Chapter XXI: A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
b. Identify an example of personification in each of the following short extracts.
Chapter XXXIII: The doorway soon absorbed her boxes, and she gave me her hand and a smile, and said good night, and was absorbed likewise..
Chapter X: I coaxed myself to sleep by thinking of Miss Havisham’s, next Wednesday; and in my sleep I saw the file coming at me out of a door, without seeing who held it, and I screamed myself awake..
Chapter XXXV: Once more, the mists were rising as I walked away. If they disclosed to me, as I suspect they did, that I should not come back, and that Biddy was quite right, all I can say is – they were quite right too..
Chapter XXXVI: I was startled by a sudden click in the wall on one side of the chimney, and the ghostly tumbling open of a little wooden flap with “JOHN” upon it..
Chapter XXIII: As his doing the one or the other was a mere question of time, he and Mrs. Pocket had taken Time by the forelock (when, to judge from its length, it would seem to have wanted cutting), and had married without the knowledge of the judicious parent. .
Chapter XXXIX: ... when I shaded my face with my hands and looked through the black windows (opening them ever so little was out of the question in the teeth of such wind and rain), I saw that the lamps in the court were blown out, and that the lamps on the bridges and the shore were shuddering....