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Grades 9 and 10 - Literature - High School - Jane Eyre - Language
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MCQs on the language in Jane Eyre, which draws on emotion, ideas of justice, nature, law, education and religion.

Descriptions of people are detailed in terms of their physical appearance and behavior; these portrayals are explicitly linked to inner character. The natural environment is depicted through language which is lyrical and evocative. Jane’s powerful emotions are effectively conveyed through Charlotte Brontë’s mastery of the affective vocabulary, that is to say, language related to feelings.

Grades 9 and 10 - Literature - High School - Jane Eyre - Language
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1. ''But to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases. It would please me now to draw you out: to learn more of you — therefore speak —' Instead of speaking, I smiled: and not a very complacent or submissive smile either.'
Which language choices suggest that Jane has no intention of responding to Rochester's order?
2. 'There was stretched Sarah Reed's once robust and active frame, rigid and still: her eye of flint was covered with its cold lid; her brow and strong traits wore yet the impress of her inexorable soul.' Which language choices give an impression of the hardness of Mrs Reed's character?
3. 'While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells: the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality; that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.' What has been personified in these lines?
4. 'I touched the heath: it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer day. I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered.' The use of language creates which impression here?
5. 'He looked at me before he proceeded: indeed, he seemed leisurely to read my face, as if its features and lines were characters on a page.' This sentence contains an example of which literary device?
6. 'It seemed, sir, a woman, tall and large, with thick and dark hair hanging long down her back. I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight, but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell.' What effect does the word 'shroud' have here?
7. In this passage describing the sounds made by the hidden Bertha, which phrase does not liken her to an animal or make her seem less than human?
8. 'As for me, I daily wished more to please him: but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.' Which use of language does NOT convey the unnatural direction Jane is taking at this point in the novel?
9. 'That wind would then have saddened my heart; this obscure chaos would have disturbed my peace. As it was, I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamor.' Which language choices refer strictly to Jane's own emotions?
10. 'My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings: something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down — I uttered a wild, involuntary cry.' What effect is created by the use of language in this sentence?

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