Literary Terms
an extended metaphor
conceit
"Opportunity had developed [Madame Defarge] into a tigress"
metaphor
Mr. Lorry looks outside and shivers at this object
The Grindstone
The shadow
Madame Defarge
Often in the novel wine represents
blood
persuading someone by using emotion
The guillotine was "the best cure for headache"
verbal irony
The Carmagnole is a
dance
The jackal
Sydney Carton
Often in the novel, Dickens compares the chaotic energy of the revolutionary mob to
the sea/ocean
short saying, pointed statement
aphorism
"And still Madame Defarge, pursuing her way along the streets, came nearer and nearer."
Foreshadowing
The novel starts in this year
1775
The honest tradesman
Jerry Cruncher
What motif is used in Mr. Lorry's response to Jerry in "The Mail"?
"Recalled to Life"
a work that conveys a hidden meaning - usually moral, spiritual or political - through the use of symbolic characters and events
allegory
"For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power."
Paradox
This term describes Darnay's imprisonment in La Force
In Secret
The fellow of no delicacy
Sydney Carton
Dickens often uses similes and other figurative language to add humor when he describes this physical attribute of Jerry Cruncher
His hair
Leads to the central conflict
Inciting Incident
While trying to get away in chapter "52", Dickens writes, "the whole night is in pursuit of us."
Personification
How does Madame Defarge's brother die?
Stabbed by Evremonde in a duel
John Barsad's real name - first and last
Solomon Pross
Dickens uses the conceit of blue flies at the Old Bailey to make a statement about the British __________ system
justice