CHARACTERS

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 527.

I. Miss Martha

1. Is there any description of Miss Martha's appearance? What details provide clues about hers personality?

Which word combination characterizing Miss Martha is repeated throughout the story?

2. What is the phrase she cooked a mysterious compound associated with? What does the epithet add?

3. Pick out the passages representing Miss Martha's thoughts? What can we guess about her character?

4. What does the choice of the word genius suggest about Miss Martha's attitude towards the customer?

5. Identify Miss Martha's unuttered represented speech.How does it characterize her?

II. The customer

1.Which of the following aspects of the customer does his description focus on?

· physical

· social

· personality traits

2. What is peculiar about the speech of the customer? What is the name of the stylistic device employed? How does his speech characterise him?

3. How would you define the tone of the customer's voice in the first and the second dialogue?

Calm, angry, hysterical, controlled, persuasive, defiant, angry, resigned, arrogant, intimidating, other:______

4. How are his emotions revealed through the second dialogue? Does the narrator describe his feelings directly or does he use more subtle means to communicate the intensity of emotions? Which of the following techniques can you identify?

· epithets

· metaphor

· personification

· symbolic gesture

· brief exclamatory sentences

· foreign words

· jestures or details of appearance implying emotional state