S2 Exercise: Sentence Structure (2)
Continue answering the rest of the questions from the previous exercise!
4) “She was agog: cases of specimens? A projecting lantern? What did he have to show the Scholars that was so urgent and important? (P13)
- a) What do the three sentences above have in common?
- b) What is the name of the technique employed by Pullman?
- c) What does the use of this technique emphasise about Lyra?
5) “She knew the Scholars well: the Librarian, the Sub-Rector, the Enquirer
and the rest”. (P18/19)
- a) What is the purpose of the colon in the quotation above?
6) “In many ways Lyra was a barbarian. What she liked best was clambering over the College roofs with Roger to spit plum-stones on the heads of passing scholars or hooting like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war. (P35)
- a) Explain the relationship between these two sentences.
- b) What do the UNDERLINED words have in common?
- c) What do they highlight about Lyra’s personality?
7. “That was it; nothing and no-one else existed now for Lyra. She gazed at Mrs Coulter with awe, and listened rapt and silent to her tales of igloo-building, of seal-hunting, of negotiating with the Lapland witches”. (P69)
- a) Comment on the structure of the second sentence in the extract above.
- b) What does this sentence reveal about Lyra’s view of Mrs Coulter?
8) “To be exiled from the grandeur of Jordan, the splendour and fame of its scholarship, to a dingy brick-built boarding-house of a college at the northern end of Oxford, with dowdy female Scholars who smelt of cabbage and mothballs like those two at dinner”. (P71)
- a) Write down all of the words and phrases that capture Lyra’s view of Jordan College.
- b) Write down all the words and phrases that capture Lyra’s feelings about the proposed
- c) Comment on the structure of this sentence.