Quotent Quotables
"Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack / pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"
Claude McKay (If We Must Die)
Robert Frost (Mending Wall)
Stabbed Jean Morris in the chest and eventually left Europe for Africa
Mustafa Sa'eed
Estha is often figured as having this type of animal living inside of him
octopus
A literary figure of direct comparison (this is your bread and butter)
Metaphor
"So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay"
Robert Frost (Nothing Gold Can Stay)
"He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind."
Perfume
Wore nylon stockings around his neck as a good luck charm to keep himself safe; carried a machine gun
Henry Dobbins
This motif is portrayed throughout Perfume as a characterization linking Grenouille to inhumanity
animal motif (spiders, ticks)
Detailed language about scent or odor that evokes powerful sensory perception
Olfactory imagery
"How can a person claim to love you and yet want you to do things that suit only them? Udenna was like that"
The Thing Around Your Neck
"Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin"
When the Emperor Was Divine
Returns from an internment camp listless and broken, seemingly unable to work at all
Father in WEWD
Otsuka uses these natural motifs to convey the hostile environment of the internment camp
dust, bright light
Dramatic device where a character directly addresses the audience, with the idea that other onstage characters cannot hear
Aside
"This my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red"
Macbeth
"We'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were — ordinary people — and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making."
Season of Migration to the North
Estha
Macbeth calls upon these opposing forces often. Imagery plays up the contrast between these. He imagines stars hiding themselves or his eyes seeled shut in order to heighten this motif
light/dark, darkness
BE VERY PRECISE: the poetic foot that goes unstressed-stressed, like: u /
Iamb
"There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about"
Wide Sargasso Sea
"the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again"
The God of Small Things
Sandy
This text makes use of motifs surrounding family, especially about absent or toxic mother-child relationships
Into the Woods
Interlocking rhyme pattern of tercets in poetry, such as ABA BCB CDC
terza rima