Comprehension
"I saw the ambulance, no siren this time."
Referring to when Moira got caught up
"Still, it must be hell, to be a man, like that.
It must be just fine.
It must be hell.
It must be very silent"
Repetition
TRUE OR FALSE: this quote is an allusion
"It’s the usual story, the usual stories. God to Adam, God to Noah. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." (88)
FALSE
- allusions is the alluding to something but the passage isn't alluding to anything it's referring
"To be a man, watched by women. It must be entirely strange. To have them watching him all the time."
Shows how men have the power due to them being watched and having the women be ready to follow their next order. (87)
"I check the clock, during dessert, canned pears with cinnamon for lunch, and look for Moira in her place two tables over." page 89
appositive
TRUE OR FALSE: This quote contains Imagery
"We had it read to us every breakfast, as we sat in the high-school cafeteria, eating porridge with cream and brown sugar." (88-89)
TRUE
- The description of food and area of where they're eating their breakfast is imagery
"They took her into the room that used to be the Science Lab. It was room where none of us ever went willingly." page 91
We believe that it's the room that handmaids in training get abused in by the Aunts after breaking one of the rules.
"...In those stores that sold candles and soap in shapes of things: seashells, mushrooms. Like cigarette paper. Like Petals."
Simile
TRUE OR FALSE: Does this quote only contain Imagery?
"The sound suggests the softness of the thin oniony pages, how they would feel under the fingers. Soft and dry, like papier poudre, pink and powdery, from the time before," (90)
FALSE
- the words starting with the letter p is unintentional alliteration
- description of the bible, touch, smell, sight