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Silas Marner quotes Flashcards

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SW: the beginning of the book

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‘spinning wheels’, ‘spinning wheels’

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SW: Silas confronts William Dane

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‘you have woven a plot’

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SW: His live became…

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‘weaving and hoarding’

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SW: noun

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‘monotony’

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5
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FQ: Start of text

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‘in the days’

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FQ: Scary quote

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‘old demon worship’

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Hearth: a description of a scene

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‘in the light of the evening hearth’

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Hearth: a contrast

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‘the little light he posessed spread its beams so narrowly’…‘blackness of light’

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Hearth: money

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‘five bright guineas’

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Hearth: personification

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‘bright faces’

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Hearth: Silas blocks out the light

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‘closed his shutters’, and ‘drew out his gold’

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Silas: first description of him

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‘linen weaver’

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Silas; spinning wheel link

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‘tread mill attitude’

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14
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Silas: a … … man

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‘pallid young man’

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Silas: his eyes

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‘brown’, ‘unexampled’

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Silas: a contrast

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‘dead man come to life’ with ‘exemplary life’

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Silas: a description that ends a long line

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‘condemned, to solitude’

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Silas: religion

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‘ardent faith’

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Silas: normal description

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‘sane and honest’

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20
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Silas: repetition

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‘despair in his soul’, ‘stunned by despair’

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21
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Silas: a shocking moment

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‘a God of lies’

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Silas: his life is deteriorating

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his ‘face and figure shrank’

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Silas: a contrast of his eyes

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‘trusty and dreamy’ with ‘very small, like tiny grain’

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Silas: decay

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‘withered and yellow’

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Silas: his soul

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‘truthful simple’

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Raveloe: echoes

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‘where many of the old echoes lingered’

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Raveloe: church

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‘barren parishes’

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Raveloe: church 2

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‘fine old church’

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Raveloe: lazy townfolk

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‘live in rollicking fashion’

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Raveloe: tricolon

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‘keep jolly Christmas, Whitsun and Easter tide’

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Raveloe: the pub

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‘the Rainbow’

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Raveloe: personification

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‘orchards looking lazy’

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Raveloe: plenty

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‘neglected plenty’, ‘large church in the wide courtyard’

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Raveloe: humour

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‘purple faced farmers’

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Raveloe: food

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‘men supped heavily’

36
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William: Sarah

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‘Sarah did not object to William’s…presence’

37
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William: Silas

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‘friend’, ‘brother’

38
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Lantern Yard: religion

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‘eyes which… represented God’s people’

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Lantern Yard: the lots

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‘the lots declared’, ‘drawing lots’

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Lantern Yard: the walls

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‘whitewashed walls’

41
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Lantern Yard: church

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‘little pews’

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Lantern Yard: alliteration

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‘pitched in a peculiar key of petition’

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Lantern Yard: collective noun

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‘swell of voices’

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Eppie: foreshadowing

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‘a second great change’

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The Red House: description

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‘a large red house’

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The Red House: fountain

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‘without…the fountain of love and fear’

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Dunstan: contrast

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‘blonde face’ of Godfrey vs the ‘flushed’ face of Dunstan

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Dunstan: face

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‘thick-set’

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Dunstan: appearance

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‘heavy looking’

50
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Dunstan: aggressive

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‘in a mocking tone’, ‘sneering’

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Dunstan: masculine lexis

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‘beating the butt-end’, ‘whip’

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Dunstan: cunning

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‘diabolical cunning’

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