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Wuthering Heights
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Melodrama Senses Sentence mood Noun phrases Parallelism Imagery Symbolism Lexical set
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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’
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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’
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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
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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
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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?’
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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?
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