SETTING

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 389.

PLOT

ANALYSIS

GLOSSARY

petulantly

vagary

to plump down

whimsical

obtuseness

hectic eyes

to disconcert sb

wilful

common, n.

combustion

to muse

complacently

won't fret her fat over

sere

check-pattern

to fidget

elderberries

limp

primroses

mole

pest

to paddle

to snuff

fumblingly, to fumble with/ round

pointed nose/head

to wrestle

frantic

snout

to writhe

to swaddle

to combat

to dart away

to grope

wrath

harebells

poignancy

to come tumbling

succulent

stooks of barley

stubble

a sickly scent

to mow

of medium stature

ruddiness

to enhance

to hitch one's trousers

self-consciously

suffocation

undertone of

quaint ways

to get one's rag out

to talk broad

to jar on sb

admonitory

flippancy

a misgiving

tentatively

to jaw about sth

to examine sth minutely

recklessness

go out with sb

nape of a neck

1. Identify the structural components of the plot.

2. What language means and stylistic devices aim at building up tension in the climactic episode?

3. When does the nervous tension of the girl fall? After which event does she start to see everything in a different light? Is this a change for the better? What do such words as dreary, indifference, quiet sadness suggest?

1.Where does the scene take place? What details of the setting reinforce its rural aspect? Is it important? Why? Circle words in the text that refer to the vegetation and landscap

2.What season serves as a background for the narration. What period of human life do you associate with this season? To what extent can the asociation be relevant for the story?

3.Name stylistic devices used in the following:

· country was intensely morning-still

· the hillside gave off heat in silence

· The brown turf seemed in a low state of combustion, the small red and orange of the village

What atmosphere is maintained by these devices?

4. Re-read the description of the common and the view from it beginning with There was silence. What colours prevail in the desciption?What stylistic devices are used? . Comment on the cinematographic technique of widening angle, starting from a near ‘close-up'and moving for ‘long shot' in the description of the common. What is its effect?

How would you define the language the author uses in this description (figurative, concrete , abstract)?

5. Whose point of view dominates the description in the passage beginning with The two girls sat perfectly still? What mood does the description reflect?

6. The images of crab-apples and willows are repeated with modifications. What is the difference between the first and the second mention of these trees? Whose emotionl state is changed as revealed through this sudden change in the willow.? What is repeated in the words twinkling, glitter, dazzling, like diamonds? What event accounts for the change? Is this a change for the better?

7.Which of the adjectives would you choose to describe the setting?

- hostile

- welcoming

- alien

- familiar

- inhospitable

- comforting

- other

8.What conclusions can you draw about the type of social circle Frances and Anne belong to?