english practice Flashcards
(16 cards)
Theme: Guilt in Atonement
I gave them happiness, but I was not so self-serving as to let them forgive me.
Theme: Class Conflict in Atonement
Briony’s false accusation reflects the deep class divide between Robbie and the Tallises.
Appositive for Robbie in Atonement
Robbie, the wronged yet dignified outsider, destroyed by a lie and war…
Appositive for Briony in Atonement
Briony, the imaginative child-turned-writer whose guilt redefines truth and fiction…
Theme: Unreliable Narrator in Roger Ackroyd
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.
Appositive for Dr. Sheppard in Roger Ackroyd
Dr. Sheppard, the trustworthy doctor concealing his crime beneath calm narration…
Theme: Madness in King Lear
O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven!
Appositive for Edmund in King Lear
Edmund, the illegitimate son whose ambition poisons loyalty and bloodline…
Appositive for Cordelia in King Lear
Cordelia, the honest daughter whose silence speaks more than flattery ever could…
Theme: Illusion vs Reality in Death of a Salesman
He’s liked, but not—well liked.
Appositive for Willy in Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman, the aging dreamer chasing an unattainable American ideal…
Appositive for Linda in Death of a Salesman
Linda, the quiet protector holding a broken family together with grace and pain…
Theme: Obsession in La Belle Dame sans Merci
Obsession, seduction, and fatal beauty
Appositive for Lamia in Keats’ Poetry
Lamia, the serpentine enchantress torn between illusion and love…
Theme: Possessive Love in Porphyria’s Lover
That moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good.
Appositive for Wilde’s Prisoner
The condemned man, a soul laid bare by guilt and institutional cruelty…
