1. Wuthering Heights

2.  Melodrama  Senses  Sentence mood  Noun phrases  Parallelism  Imagery  Symbolism  Lexical set

3.  Try and find the following quotations and add any more you feel are worthy of comment. Comment on the effect of each line.  ‘This time I remembered...frenzy of fright’  ‘The fingers of a little, ice-cold hand’  ‘Let me in!’  ‘Who are you?’  ‘lamentable prayer...doleful cry...melancholy voice’  Heathcliff’s grief: ‘tears...sobbed...anguish’

4.  The exclamatory mood shows Lockwood’s genuine shock at the sight of the ghost.  The whole extract feels extremely melodramatic.  There is a sense of desperate pleading from the child.  Lockwood’s role as outsider is established through his questions.  Real sense of overwhelming sadness through the noun phrases ‘doleful cry’

5.  Try and find examples of the following in this extract:  Melodrama  Appeals to sense of sound and touch  Exclamatory mood  Noun phrases of suffering  Heathcliff’s restless searching

6.  Heathcliff’s conviction that Catherine has been haunting him.  Plenty of examples of sensuous language.  Hurries home which gives different perspective upon Isabella’s narrative about what happened when Hindley locked him out and was beaten.  Heavy focus on his suffering

7.  Events leading up to Heathcliff’s death.  Catherine’s ghost is now constantly with Heathcliff. This is evident from the mood.  Lexical set of uncharacteristic joy ‘bright, cheerful etc’  34 – Nelly sees Heathcliff and the imagery suggests his imminent death ‘the fire had smouldered to ashes’  ‘Is he a ghoul or a vampire?’

8.  Chapter 34 – Heathcliff’s Death  What is the significance of the setting? Where have we seen this before?  What happens to his wrist?  What feeling are we left with at the end of the chapter?