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Question 1

CH.13 Sex

Answer 1

‘But maybe the bedroom is erotic, when women do it for men’

Question 2

CH.13. Janine shaming

Answer 2

‘Crybaby. Crybaby. Crybaby’ ( Humiliating Janine is a way of distracting of them of the bigger problem, claiming that she is at fault, allows them to forget that it was a mans action that caused this) (Repetition makes it seem like a chant/ mantra)

Question 3

‘God, do I need a cigarette, says Moira’————-‘Me too’

Answer 3

Clear indication of rebellion being a key personality trait of Moira and Offred. The verb ‘need’ makes it seem its obligation

Question 4

‘Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. It transmits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight’

Answer 4

Metaphor for the moon being a reflection of female menstruation

Question 5

‘I hear the voice, ‘Down’, is it a real voice or a voice inside my own head, out loud?’

Answer 5

Rhetorical question: a show of a distorted mental state, can’t gauge what is real and what’s not. Creating a strong persona of an unreliable narrator.

Question 6

‘Of all the dreams this is the worst’

Answer 6

The noun ‘dream’ employs a narrative of fiction/ fantasy. Developing that she is an unreliable narrator as this could be all fictional or very fabricated