ASND

Question 1

“soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown”

Answer 1

10 - reality, class, change

costume, imagery, contrast

Question 2

“a pair of scuffed slippers”

Answer 2

10 - reality, class, change

costume, imagery, contrast

Question 3

“You’ve got to be careful to dive where the deep pool is - if you hit a rock you don’t come up till tomorrow….”

Answer 3

10 - violence, fate, reality

soliloquy

Question 4

“murmuring excitedly as if to a group of spectral admirers.”

Answer 4

10 - reality

comparative clause

Question 5

“honky-tonk music is heard”

Answer 5

10 - violence

plastic theatre

Question 6

“Shall we bury the hatchet and make it a loving-cup?”

Answer 6

10 - violence, fate

dramatic interrogative, metaphor, juxtaposition

Question 7

“The silk pyjamas I wore on my wedding night!”

Answer 7

10 - desire

exclamative, symbolism, foreshadowing

Question 8

“I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine!”

Answer 8

10 - class

metaphor, pejorative

Question 9

“Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable […] and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.”

Answer 9

10 - class

irony

Question 10

“Oh”

Answer 10

10 - reality

interjections

Question 11

“There isn’t a goddam thing but imagination!”

Answer 11

10 - reality, violence

exclamative

Question 12

“Ha-ha-ha!”

Answer 12

10 - violence

exclamative, use of derision

Question 13

“Lurid reflections”

Answer 13

10 - reality, violence

connotation, juxtaposition

lurid = unpleasantly bright in colour; gaudy, loud.

Question 14

“The shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form.”

Answer 14

10 - reality, violence

imagery

grotesque = strange in a way that is unpleasant or offensive.

Question 15

“The night is filled with inhuman voices like cries in a jungle”

Answer 15

10 - reality, violence

imagery, simile, symbolism

Question 16

“A prostitute has rolled a drunkard.”

Answer 16

10 - class

minor charachters

Question 17

“The ‘blue piano’ goes softly.”

Answer 17

10 - violence, fate

symbolism

Question 18

“let’s have some rough-house!”

Answer 18

10 - gender, violence

exclamative, imperative, colloquialism

Question 19

“We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!”

Answer 19

10 - fate

irony, symbolism

Question 20

“She sinks to her knees […] The hot trumpet and drums from the Four Deuces sound loudly.”

Answer 20

10 - violence, gender

plastic theatre

Question 21

“the ‘Varsouviana’, is heard. The music is in her mind [..] the senses of disaster closing in on her.”

Answer 21

9 - violence, reality

motif, plastic theatre, foreshadowing, symbolism

Question 22

“My, my, what a cold shoulder! And a face like a thundercloud! And such uncouth apparel!”

Answer 22

9 - class, desire

Simile, irony, exclamative

Question 23

“Have you ever had anything caught in your head? […] No, of course you haven’t, you dumb angel-puss”

Answer 23

9 - class, violence

sarcastic tone, imagery, hypophora

Question 24

“Are you boxed out of your mind?”

Answer 24

9 - reality

idiom, contrast

Question 25

"I won't descend to the level of such cheap accusations to answer them, even!"

Answer 25

9 - class figurative language, exclamative, antithesis

Question 26

"The dark is comforting to me."

Answer 26

9 - reality contrast, symbolism

Question 27

"(He tears the paper lantern off the light bulb)"

Answer 27

9 - reality stage direction, imagery, symbolism

Question 28

"I'll tell you what I want. Magic!"

Answer 28

9 - reality, desire declarative, exclamative, symbolism

Question 29

"After the death of Allan - intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with...."

Answer 29

9 - violence, reality pathos, symbolism, dash, ellipsis

Question 30

"Kiefaber, Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite."

Answer 30

9 - gender, desire metaphor

Question 31

"Flores. Flores. Flores para los muertos."

Answer 31

9 - fate repetition, symbolism, code switching

Question 32

"You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother."

Answer 32

9 - class, violence, reality metaphor, pejorative

Question 33

"A torch of sunlight blazes"

Answer 33

8 - reality, violence Metaphor, imagery, personification, stage directions

Question 34

"A dismal birthday supper"

Answer 34

8 - violence juxtaposition, tone, stage directions

Question 35

"Blanche has a tight, artificial smile on her drawn face."

Answer 35

8 - reality, class stage directions

Question 36

"It's my first time in my entire experience with men [...], that I've actually been stood up by anybody!"

Answer 36

8 - gender, class Hyperbole, colloquial tone

Question 37

"Mr. Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else."

Answer 37

8 - gender, violence, class Animal imagery, pejorative tone

Question 38

"Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy. Go and wash up and then help me clear the table."

Answer 38

8 - gender, violence, class Imperative, pejorative tone

Question 39

"Remember what Huey Long said - 'Every Man is a King!' And I am the king around here, so don't forget it!"

Answer 39

8 - gender Allusion, metaphor, exclamative

Question 40

"(He hurls a cup and saucer to the floor.)"

Answer 40

8 - gender, violence rhetorical question

Question 41

"You remember the way it was? Them nights we had together?"

Answer 41

8 - gender, desire rhetorical question

Question 42

"get the coloured lights going with nobody's sister behind the curtains to hear us!"

Answer 42

8 - gender, desire symbolism, imperative, imagery

Question 43

"But what I am is a one hundred per cent. American, born and raised in the greastest country on earth and proud as hell of it".

Answer 43

8 - class hyperbole

Question 44

"he speaks slowly and with false amiability."

Answer 44

8 - violence, reality oxymoron

Question 45

"Sister Blanche, I've got a little birthday remembrance for you."

Answer 45

8 - violence, reality irony, sarcasm

Question 46

"She clutches her throat and then runs into the bathroom. Coughing, gagging sounds are heard."

Answer 46

8 - violence, reality stage direction, symbolism

Question 47

"people like you abused her, and forced her to change."

Answer 47

8 - violence, gender direct address, violent diction

Question 48

"I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it"

Answer 48

8 - class, desire metaphor

Question 49

"El pan de mais, el pan de mais"

Answer 49

8 - reality repetition, code-switching

Question 50

"as if some interior voice had called her name."

Answer 50

8 - reality simile, connotation

Question 51

"You know she's been feeding us a pack of lies here?"

Answer 51

7 - reality metaphor

Question 52

"Blanche is singing in the bathroom a saccharine popular ballad which is used contrapunctally with Stanley's speech."

Answer 52

7 - reality juxtaposition, irony, plastic theatre

Question 53

"But Sister Blanche is non lily!"

Answer 53

7 - reality, gender symbolism, exclamative

Question 54

"She is as famous in Laurel as if she was the President of the United States, only she is not respected by any party!"

Answer 54

7 - reality, gender, class simile, hyperbole

Question 55

"But it wouldn't be make-believe If you believed in me!'"

Answer 55

7 - reality irony

Question 56

"washed up like posion."

Answer 56

7 - violence simile

Question 57

"A seventeen-year-old boy - she'd gotten mixed up with!"

Answer 57

7 - reality, violence exposition

Question 58

"Blanche didn't just love him but worshipped the ground he walked on!"

Answer 58

7 - reality, gender, desire hyperbole, metaphor

Question 59

"This beautiful and talented young man was a degenerate."

Answer 59

7 - reality, gender, desire juxtaposition

Question 60

"Hey, canary bird! Toots! Get OUT of the BATHROOM!"

Answer 60

7 - violence epithets, animal imagery, imperative, exclamative