Show:
Edna, Edna, Edna
Rhetorical What?
Obscene Oceans
Mercurial Madness
Mystery
100
This who Edna was talking with when she said she wouldn't give up herself, and the person says, "I don't know what you would call the essential, or what you mean by the unessential."
Who is Adele Ratignolle?
100
These are the 3 the main rhetorical devices used in the quote: "He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
What are the devices: antithesis, simile (analogy), and metonymy?
100
This literary device is used when talking about the sea: "The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude."
What is personification?
100
This is the type of literary device employed when Robert and others discuss Alcee Arobin's adulterous affairs earlier in the novel.
What is foreshadowing?
100
This is what (remonstrate) means in the following context: "She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly."
What is argue in protest or opposition?
200
This person says to Edna, "I should think you'd understand by this time that people don't do such things; we've got to observe Bronte if we ever expect to get on and keep up with the procession."
Who is Leonce Pontellier?
200
This rhetorical device is used in the following: "The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all a part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic."
What is metaphor/metonymy/analogy?
200
This is the allure of the ocean for Edna.
What is freedom of the unknown?
200
This is the explanation for Leonce Pontellier deciding to hire someone to renovate their New Orleans mansion.
What is the fact that he thought it best for business that he keep up the facade that his marriage was good and that Edna and the kids were away due to the renovations.
200
The word (evasiveness) means this in context: "She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness--not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life..."
What is avoidance; escaping; indirectness?
300
This person says to Edna: "And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must posses the courageous soul."
Who is Mademoiselle Reisz?
300
These two characters think of each other most when around water. In fact, their entire relationship began near water.
Who are Robert and Edna?
300
This is the rhetorical device employed when Edna finally gets Robert and then does not want to marry him.
What is dramatic irony?
300
The word (asunder) can be determined by the context: "Part of the distance they rode in the car, and after disembarking, passed the Pontellier mansion which looked broken and half torn asunder."
What is torn apart; in separate pieces?
400
This person says of Edna, "Woman, my dear friend is a very peculiar and delicate organism--a sensitive and highly organized woman..."
Who is Dr. Mandellet?
400
This rhetorical device is used in the following quote: "She could only realize that she herself-her present self-was in some way different than the other self."
What is synecdoche?
400
This is what a psychologist might interpret to be the reason why Edna strips before her final venture into the sea.
What is to return to the water naked like the day she was born; the life cycle in its purest state?
400
This is why Edna married Leonce in the first place.
What is the marriage was arranged for money and status?
400
This is what is referred to as "local color" or language based on a region of the country.
What is dialect?
500
This person is whom Edna is described as being with in this quote: "Her seductive voice, together with his great love for her, had enthralled his sense, had deprived him of every impulse but the longing to hold her and keep her."
Who is Robert?
500
This is the rhetorical device used in the following quote: "She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again."
What is personification?
500
This is the reason for Edna's final swim in the ocean.
What is the fact that she felt no other choice for the freedom she desired?
500
This is the moodiest man in the novel who constantly struggles with what he wants.
Who is Robert?
500
This is why Edna read Whitman and Emerson.
What is the fact they believed in women's rights and self-expression based on Transcendentalism?