Pride & Prejudice - Study Guide

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  • Plot questions
  • The names of the characters' abodes (the places they live) - Longborne, etc.
  • Who am I? section 
  • Five quotes - who said it?
  • Literary Terms
    • Direct characterization - an author's narrator tells you about someone directly.
    • Indirect characterization - the author has the characters "show" you what they are like because of something they say or do (or though what another character reveals about a character).
    • Free indirect discourse (speech) - when narration is composed of what a particular character would actually say, rather than the character saying it herself by a direct quote (hence, "indirect" speech).
    • Irony
      • Verbal - saying one thing and meaning another (Lizzy and Mr. Bennet are not unaccustomed to this style of communication)
      • Situational - something perfectly unexpected/odd happens at just the wrong-right time (the firehouse burns down).
      • Dramatic - when the audience knows something the characters do not know
  • Passage interpretation - you will be given two passages from P&P and must answer several interpretive questions from each.
  • Essay section - be ready for a couple of possibilities, but I have decided not to do a full-blown ICE. You're welcome! ; )

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