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100
This character gives Pip lessons in basic manners. Later, Pip becomes a bad influence, leading this character into reckless spending.
Who is Herbert Pocket?
100
"You must know," said Estella, that I have no _________--if that has anything to do with my memory."
What is heart?
100
Pip identifies this act as "the only good thing [he] had done...since [he] was apprised of [his] great expectations."
What is convince Miss Havisham to invest in Herbert's business prospects?
100
The narrative perspective from which Great Expectations is told.
What is First Person Narration?
100
This character lives in his "castle" and sharply divides his work and personal lives.
Who is Wemmick?
200
Either one of the aliases that Magwitch adopts for protection.
What is Provis or Mr. Campbell?
200
Wemmick comments to Pip: "my guiding-star always is, Ge hold of __________ _____________."
What is portable property?
200
Miss Havisham begs Pip to write these words on a piece of paper under her name.
What are the words "I forgive her"?
200
Pip spends most of the book believing Miss Havisham to be his anonymous benefactor when, in fact, his mysterious benefactor is the escaped convict he aided long ago on the marsh.
What is irony?
200
This character habitually washes his hands with scented soap when he is finished talking with a client.
Who is Jaggers?
300
Pip gets badly burned when he rescues this character from a fire.
Who is Miss Havisham?
300
This character admonishes Pip: "Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces--and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper--love her, love her, love her!"
Who is Miss Havisham?
300
At the moment of his capture, Magwitch manages to pull this person from the boat, struggle with him underwater, and send him to a watery grave.
Who is Compeyson?
300
"In the Eastern story, the heavy slab that was to fall on the bed of state in the flush of conquest was slowly wrought out of the quarry, the tunnel for the rope to hold it in its place was slowly carried through the leagues of rock, the slab was slowly raised and fitted in the roof, the rope was rove to it and slowly taken through the miles of hollow to the great iron ring.[....] dropped on me." (290-291)
What is an extended metaphor?
300
This character looks at Pip with "a clear and honest eye," taking him to task for his abandonment of Joe.
Who is Biddy?
400
This character manipulates both Arthur Havisham and Abel Magwitch to do his dirty work for him.
Who is Compeyson?
400
This character utters the following: "Dear Boy and Pip's comrade. I am not a going fur to tell you my life like a song or a story-book. But to give it you short and handy, I'll put it at once into a mouthful of English."
Who is (Abel) Magwitch a.k.a Uncle Provis?
400
Pip realizes that Molly is Estella's mother because the motion of Molly's hands reminds him of the movements of Estella's hands when she is doing this.
What is knitting?
400
At Wopsle's rendition of Hamlet, Dickens notes: "Whenever that undecided Prince had to ask a question or state a doubt, the public helped him out with it. As for example; on the question of whether it was nobler in the mind to suffer, some roared yes, and some no, and some inclining to both opinions said 'toss up for it'."
What is humor? What is satire? [mockery of Wopsle's acting]
400
This character responds to "domestic affliction" by "[putting] his two hands into his disturbed hair, and [appearing] to make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it."
Who is Matthew Pocket?
500
This character attacked Mrs. Joe, lurked on the staircase of Pip's apartment, and sought Pip's destruction.
Who is Orlick?
500
Pip comments: "my great expectations had all dissolved, like our own marsh _____________ before the sun."
What are mists?
500
A mysterious man at the Jolly Bargemen, who ultimately gives Pip two one-pound notes, first attracts Pip's attention because he is stirring his drink with this odd object.
What is a file?
500
"The crisp air, the sunlight, the movement on the river, and the moving river itself--the road that ran with us, seeming to sympathise with us, animate us, and encourage us on--freshened me with new hope."
What is pathetic fallacy?
500
This character marries Wemmick.
Who is Miss Skiffins?
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