Language Questions - Great Expectations

Test yourself on Language Questions - Great Expectations

• What technique is used in this quotation:
  
  

  ‘I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers’?

• What technique is used in this quotation:
  
  

  ‘Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me’?

• What technique is used in this quotation:
  
  

  'She was dressed in rich materials,—satins, and lace, and silks,—all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white'?

• What is the purpose of the subordinate clause in italics?
  
  'I answered, more in shyness than politeness'

• What is the effect of using repetition in this quotation?
  
  'She was dressed in rich materials,—satins, and lace, and silks,—all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white'