ENG1D Module 12 The Chrysalids Week2 PDF

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English, Grade 9, Module 12 Assignment on the novel study of the book The Chrysalids, week number two....

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The Chrysalids Week 2 Quote #1: Simile “Then there was pain, a demand pulling like a fish-hook embedded in my mind” (Wyndham 33). In chapter 9, Wyndham uses a simile to describe how David felt when Petra sent out her urgent call for help. David is comparing Petras demanding pull by describing it as a fish hook embedded in his mind.

Quote #2: Foreshadowing “It was a funny thing about my little sister, Petra. She seemed so normal. We never suspected — not one of us” (Wyndham 33). When David is describing his little sister Petra and he says “We never suspected - not one of us” (Wyndham 33) I believe this is foreshadowing that Petra is not normal and she is different just like David. The reader is given a hint/foreshadowing that Petra is more than what she seems/looks like.

Quote #3: Hyperbole “With the way she was yelling! I'd've thought any-body who wasn't deaf would have heard her half-way to Kentak” (Wyndham 33). As Rosalind is describing how she felt when she heard Petras urgent call, she exaggerates (hyperbole) that Petras command felt so loud, you could probably hear Petra from “half-way to Kentak.”

Quote #4: Foreshadowing “That night, for the first time for years, I had a once-familiar dream, only this time when the knife gleamed high in my father's right hand, the deviation that struggled in his left was not a calf, it was not Sophie, either; it was Petra” (Wyndham 34). I believe that this quote is foreshadowing that something may happen to Petra. David dreamt about Sophie in the same scenario, and she was taken captive, I believe that the same thing may happen to Petra.

Quote #5: Personification “It was not that memories of Aunt Harriet and of Sophie were dulled; it was rather that they did not jump so frighteningly and so often into my mind” (Wyndham 32). When David is describing his memories of Sophie and Aunt Harriet, he gives his memories the human characterization of jumping....