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It Starts with a Bang Day JobsHe Says, She Says Fore!Snail MailThe Dickens Descriptions
It Starts with a Bang The novel's opening lines use this self-contradictory literary device.
It Starts with a Bang What is paradox?
It Starts with a Bang These figures establish the allegorical feel in the opening chapter.
It Starts with a Bang Who are the Woodsman, Fate, and the Farmer, Death?
It Starts with a Bang The novel's opening lines employ this repetitive syntactic device.
It Starts with a Bang What is anaphora?
It Starts with a Bang Jumping back and forth between England and France sets up this motif.
It Starts with a Bang What is the motif of doubling?
It Starts with a Bang The queen of England is described as having this kind of face.
It Starts with a Bang What is plain?
Day Jobs The man on the Evrémonde estate who supports the revolution works in this job.
Day Jobs What is mending roads?
Day Jobs Jarvis Lorry works in this business.
Day Jobs What is banking or Tellson's Bank?
Day Jobs Sydney Carton's income comes from this activity.
Day Jobs What is working for Mr. Stryver?
Day Jobs Charles Darnay earns his living by doing this.
Day Jobs What is tutoring French?
Day Jobs The last woman who talks with Sydney Carton worked in this occupation.
Day Jobs What is a seamstress?
He Says, She Says He says, "Even then, I did exercises for other boys, and seldom did my own."
He Says, She Says Who is Sydney Carton?
He Says, She Says She says, "You shall see me at the head of the women, by- and-by."
He Says, She Says Who is Madame Defarge?
He Says, She Says He says, "How could my happiness be perfect, while yours was incomplete?"
He Says, She Says Who is Alexandre Maentte?
He Says, She Says He says, "Don't go and tell me that you buried Cly. It was a take in."
He Says, She Says Who is Jerry Cruncher?
He Says, She Says He says, "See my saw! I call it my little guillotine!"
He Says, She Says Who is the wood-sawyer or the mender of roads?
Fore! This brutal event in Book One, Chapter One foreshadows the Reign of Terror.
Fore! What is the torture and execution of a young man?
Fore! The breaking of this object in Book One foreshadows later bloodshed.
Fore! What is a wine cask?
Fore! A joker in Book One writes this word on the wall with red wine.
Fore! What is "blood"?
Fore! This aspect of the Manette home makes Lucie imagine approaching crowds.
Fore! What is its magnification of the sound of footsteps?
Fore! In Book One, Jarvis Lorry's dream about digging predicts this major theme.
Fore! What is the theme of resurrection and/or redemption?
Snail Mail His letter unwittingly causes the conviction of Charles Darnay.
Snail Mail Who is Alexandre Manette?
Snail Mail His letter prompts Charles Darnay to go back to Paris.
Snail Mail Who is Gabelle?
Snail Mail He cannot deliver a letter because he does not know Charles Darnay's true identity.
Snail Mail Who is Jarvis Lorry?
Snail Mail He carries letters from the imprisoned Charles Darnay to Lucie Manette.
Snail Mail Who is Alexandre Manette?
Snail Mail Before his death, Sydney Carton makes Charles Darnay write a letter to this character.
Snail Mail Who is Lucie Manette?
The Dickens Descriptions This is "a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history."
The Dickens Descriptions What is a guillotine?
The Dickens Descriptions Monsigneur could not drink this "without the aid of four strong men besides the Cook."
The Dickens Descriptions What is morning chocolate?
The Dickens Descriptions This place is "very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious."
The Dickens Descriptions Where is Tellson's Bank?
The Dickens Descriptions It is a place where "cold, dirt, sickness, ignorance, and want, were lords in waiting."
The Dickens Descriptions Where is Saint Antoine?
The Dickens Descriptions His gloom makes it seem "the shadow of the.Bastille [is] thrown upon him."
The Dickens Descriptions Who is Alexandre Manette?