Annotate this image of Miss Havisham with quotes from the passage.
Which of the following words and phrases could be used to describe Miss Havisham?
Choose all that you feel are appropriate.
Grotesque
Supernatural
Pitiful
Disgusting
Frightening
Laughable
Pip's initial description of Miss Havisham is very vivid and memorable. What is the main device used to make it such a powerful passage of prose?
Juxtaposition
Simile
Metaphor
Repetition
Sensory language
The reader is invited to share Pip's revulsion at the sight of Miss Havisham.
As the passage goes on, Dickens develops the semantic field of death. Choose the quotes which form part of this semantic field and are used to develop and sustain the initial description of Miss Havisham.
Choose all that apply.
this standing still of all the pale decayed objects,
the withered bridal dress on the collapsed form
looked so like grave-clothes, . . . the long veil so like a shroud.
So she sat, corpse-like
bodies buried in ancient times, which fall to powder in the moment of being distinctly seen
she . . . looked as if the admission of the natural light of day would have struck her to dust.
everything in the room had stopped,
the shoe upon it, once white, now yellow, had never been worn.
the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.