"Now go to your room, and pray. Pray, you wretched boy for a forgiveness you do not deserve"
Joseph Strorm
"then all his _______ drained away, and his face went ________ grey"
"Colour" and "Blotchy"
"He put his arms round her, bent down and kissed her. Tears stood in her eyes."
Chapter 5
"My voice must have carried, for silence fell on the whole room like a clap"
Simile
What does blasphemed mean?
To show contempt/disrespect for God, to go against God's rules/ways
"You're out of order this time"
Inspector
“Any government that could pass creatures like that is _______ and ________”
"Corrupt" and "Immoral"
Chapter 4
"the teeth looking like a savage animal’s”
Simile
What does rectitude mean?
Morally correct way of thinking.
"They're no good. Fish are what you want to go after"
Alan Erwin
“It’s my official duty to protect them from harm by ______ and ________”
"Fools" and "Bigots"
"Even among the vegetables there was little deviation; the solonaceae as usual provided most of what there was."
Chapter 5
"as he swept it down the knife flashed in the light of the rising sun"
Visual imagery
What does depredations mean?
Attacking or plundering
"This place, then, would be Waknuk?"
Spider-man
“He ______ half a dozen questions at me, looking ______ every second when I did not answer them.”
"Fired" and "Fiercer"
"Except for what these books told, the past, further back than three recorded centuries, was long oblivion."
Chapter 4
"faded the pink and gold with preaching, and produced a sad, grey wraith of wifehood who died, unprotesting, a year after her second son was born.¨
Symbolism, Contrast
What does pedant mean?
A person excessively concerned with minor details and rules
"Things can either fly, or they can't, and we can't."
Sophie Wender
"a _________ certainty that it would be useless to say anything, I kept my lips ______ and my eyes _________”
"Heart-sunk", "shut", "lowered"
"Respect for God was frequently on his lips, and fear of the devil constantly in his heart"
Chapter 2
"According to Ethics, mankind - that was us, in civilised parts - was in the process of climbing back into grace; we were following a faint and difficult trail"
Metaphor
What does "solonaceae" mean?
A family of plants that include potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, chile peppers, nightshade (poisonous plants)