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Author's Bio
Symbols
Irony
Imagery
Setting
100
Penelope Lively was born in this country
What is Egypt
100
When the author uses objects to add a deeper meaning to story.
What is symbolism?
100
The Manders' are looking for a good school to send their son Charles but only ask for his opinion after they've made their decision. What type of irony does this represent?
What is situational irony
100
What type of imagery is: "She looked over the headmaster's wife from shoes to hairstyle, pricing and assessing."
What is sight
100
The country that this story takes place in
What is Britain
200
The themes of Lively's writing become more complex as the follow the growth of these.
What are Lively's children
200
“He shifted on the seat, and the leather sucked at the bare skin under his knees, stinging.” What is symbolic about this quote in the beginning of the story?
What is it shows that Charles is already uncomfortable and does not want to attend the new school.
200
In "Next Term, We'll Mash You" the Manders' give Charles the impression that he has a say in which school he goes to when in reality he has none. What type of irony does this represent?
What is dramatic irony
200
What type of imagery is: "There is a noise in his ears like running water, a torrential din out of which voices boom."
What is hearing
200
The boarding school that this story is primarily set in
What is St. Edward's Preparatory School
300
Lively married this man in 1957.
Who is Jack Lively
300
The leather in "Next Term, We'll Mash You" is symbolic in what way
What is because it used to convey to the reader how Charles feels.
300
Charles does not speak throughout the entire story even though he's supposed to be the focus of the school visit. What type of irony does this represent?
What is situational irony
300
What type of imagery is: "The woman, the mother, smoothing down a skirt that would be ridged from sitting."
What is touch
300
"Red brick, nineteenth century, spreading out long arms in which windows glittered blackly..." describes...
What is the school building
400
Lively is most well know in this country but less around the rest of the world.
What is England
400
What is symbolic about Charles absence of dialogue?
What is no one cares to know what Charles thinks
400
The other boys in the school are revealed to be unrefined in the end to Charles. This is ironic because it contrasts this about the school.
What is the school's proper appeal.
400
What type of imagery is: "Over their heads he sees beyond the window an inaccessible world of shivering trees and high racing clouds."
What is sight
400
St. Edward's has "great big grounds and [is] only an hour and a half from London."
What are the benefits of St. Edward's
500
Lively testing the boundaries of this aspect of writing in many of her works.
What is reality
500
“The child does not answer. He looks straight ahead of him, at the road coiling beneath the bonnet of the car. His face is haggard with anticipation.” Through the use of symbolism in this quote, what can the reader infer about the way Charles feels?
What is Charles is scared and anxious and not looking forward to being at the new school.
500
The thoughts of the parents are only revealed in one small portion of the text. This unexpectedly detracts from the narrator's establishment as this type of narrator.
What is a third-person omniscient narrator.
500
What type of imagery is: "The father, sherry warming his guts, thought that this was an amusing woman."
What is taste
500
"He sees beyond the window an inaccessible world of shivering trees and high racing clouds" He is?
Who is Charles