Starter quiz
- To leave someone out of something is to ______ them.
- 'exclude' ✓
- To call a place "splendid" implies that it is __________ space.
- a grand ✓
- a magnificent ✓
- an unimpressive
- an ordinary
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- 'A tool of figurative language where an image, object, idea or symbol is used to represent something other than its literal meaning' is called ______.
- 'symbolism' ✓
- To feel confined means which of the following?
- trapped ✓
- enlightened
- free
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- 'To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have' is the definition of which word beginning with 'i'?
- 'infer' ✓
- To describe someone as "petted" suggests that they have been treated ...
- with favouritism. ✓
- with disdain.
- with apathy.
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Exit quiz
- Throughout 'Wuthering Heights', Brontë uses the ______ motif to arguably represent ideas of exclusion and social division.
- 'window' ✓
- In 'Wuthering Heights', Bronte describes the windows of Wuthering Heights as ______.
- 'narrow' ✓
- 'An object, image, sound, or phrase that is repeated throughout a story that relates to the themes' is the definition of a which word beginning with 'm'?
- 'motif' ✓
- In Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights', after seeing Cathy inside Thrushcross Grange with the Lintons, Heathcliff says he would ______ the glass if she wanted to leave.
- 'shatter' ✓
- 'A point of departure or transition' is the definition of which word beginning with 't'?
- 'threshold' ✓
- In 'Wuthering Heights', Heathcliff seeing Cathy through the window could represent which of the following?
- the lack of distance between them
- the distance between them ✓
- the love between them
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Key learning points
- Brontë uses a window motif throughout 'Wuthering Heights'.
- Windows are a threshold space that might represent ideas of confinement, exclusion and distance.
- Arguably, Brontë uses window motifs throughout 'Wuthering Heights' in order to represent social divisions.
- She may also use windows in order to foreshadow how Heathcliff and Cathy are separated.
Common misconception
That a recurring image happens by accident - especially if it's an everyday object then it's likely to be meaningless.
Images are often symbols for deeper meaning in literature - especially everyday, domestic objects and then can represent ideas about the central theme of a text.
Keywords
Motif - an object, image, sound or phrase that is repeated throughout a story that relates to the themes
Threshold - a point of departure or transition
Confinement - the situation in which a person or animal is kept somewhere
Exclusion - an instance of leaving something or someone out
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