Literary Terms
People
Places
Symbols
Best & Worst
100
The first line of the novel illustrates THIS literary term to emphasize stark contrasts and the confusion of the French Revolution.
What is Parallelism?
100
This character has a secret "night job" in which he goes "fishing" for dead bodies.
Who is Jerry Cruncher?
100
______ is the suburb outside of Paris where the Defarges' live and where the wine cask scene took place.
What is Saint Antoine?
100
the breaking of the wine cask symbolizes this
What is blood in the streets
100
This character represents the cruelty of the French Aristocracy and believes that peasants should be executed.
Who is The Marquis St. Evremonde?
200
THIS literary term is used when Dickens wants to describe the characters or setting in detail.
What is Imagery?
200
This man married Lucie Mannette and gave up his birth-given name because he felt as though his family had done many people wrong.
Why is Charles Darnay?
200
Lucie grew up in England, and was raised as a ward of ________because her parents were assumed dead.
What is Tellson's Bank?
200
Madame Defarge's nickname
What is The Shadow
200
As a symbol or order and loyalty, this character is very loyal to Lucie Manette and overcomes great trials by the end of the novel.
Who is Miss Pross?
300
Dickens portrayed Madame Defarge as vengeful, quietly knitting, and plotting the deaths of those who stood in the way of revolution. This characterization of Madame Defarge is an Allusion to____.
What are the Greek Fates?
300
Madame Defarge's "shadow" or companion, changed her name to THIS because she is so supportive of the French Revolution.
Who is the Vengance?
300
Roger Cly, John Basard, Miss Pross, Mr. Stryver, Jerry Cruncher, Jarvis Lorry and Sydney Carton are all THIS NATIONALITY.
What is English?
300
In the chapter "Fire Rises" in Book 2, the people in the town all put candles in their windows. This represents
What is... their support of the Revolution.
300

This charcter struggles with alcoholism and directing his emotions toward good causes

Who is Sydney Carton?

400
Water is an important concept in the novel. When Gaspard was hanged he was "forty feet high—and left hanging, poisoning the water.” The poisoning of the well _____ the bitter impact of Gaspard's execution on the the peasants.
What is Symbolism / Symbolizes?
400
This governess is fiercely loyal to her mistress (Lucie) and her country (England).
Who is Miss Pross?
400
Charles Darnay, Lucie and Alexandre Manette, Mdme. and Msr. Defarge, Marquis Everemonde, Gaspard, and Gabelle are all natives of THIS COUNTRY.
What is France?
400

Madame Defarge's knitting is a symbol of what?

What is... Madame Defarge’s knitting becomes a symbol of her victims’ fate—death at the hands of a wrathful peasantry.

400
This reserved businessman has a strong moral compass, and proves to be an honest and trustworthy friend to the Manette's.
Who is Jarvis Lorry?
500
When Dickens describes an object as a human or living thing, he is using THIS literary term/technique.
What is Personification?
500
He is an arrogant and ambitious lawyer who wants Lucie's hand in marriage.
Who is Mr. Stryver?
500
On the historical date of July 14, 1789, Dickens places the Defarges as at the forefront of THIS event.
What is the storming of the bastille?
500

105 North Tower symbolizes what?

What is Dr. Manette's cell and where they found the letter. It symbolizes all that is wrong with the aristocracy.

500
Jerry Cruncher had an inverted sense of morals when he referred to his night time occupation as ________ and his wife's prayer as "flopping."
What is a ressurection man / an honest tradesman?
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