Creature Quotes Flashcards
(8 cards)
Creature quote 1-5
“Beautiful!-Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath;
his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness;
but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes,
that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set,
his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.”
Exclamation mark, religious connotations, colour imagery, grotesque imagery, adjectives-lustrous/pearly/watery/shrivelled/black, metaphor, triple.
Creature quote 2-4
“The whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view;
the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given in language which painted your own horrors,
and rendered mine ineffaceable.”
Metaphor, adjectives- disgusting/odious/loathsome.
Creature quote 3-2
“Cursed creator!
Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”
Alliteration, question, exclamation mark.
Creature quote 4-3
“I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope.”
“Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?”
Animal imagery, alliteration, exclamation mark, question, metaphor, onomatopoeia, adverb-wantonly.
Creature quote 5-6
“The child still struggled, and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart:
I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.”
“I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph:
clapping my hands, I exclaimed,
‘I, too, can create desolation; my enemy is not impregnable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.’”
Sibilance, personification, quick progression, verb-gazed, personification, religious connotations, dialogue, hyperbole, foreshadowing.
Creature quote 6-3
“I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up,
I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.”
“A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted me.”
Verb-trembled, metaphor, pathetic fallacy, gothic imagery, derogatory term-daemon, alliteration, adjective ghastly, noun-task.
Creature quote 7-4
“I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds.
My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”
Emotive language and imagery, final speech, verb-die, metaphor, adverb-triumphantly, personification, exclamation, colour connotation.
Creature quote 8-2
“For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to controul them;
but, allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death.”
Personification, fricative sounds, metaphor, nouns-injury/death.
