The Woman in Black (Edexcel GCSE English Literature): Flashcards
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Fill in the gap: "Those who have suffered worst say ＿＿＿＿＿"
Daily, Chapter 11
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Fill in the gap: "Those who have suffered worst say ＿＿＿＿＿"
Daily, Chapter 11
Answer: "Those who have suffered worst say least"
Fill in the gap: "Crythin Gifford has lived with that for fifty years. It's ＿＿＿＿＿ people."
Daily, Chapter 11
Answer: "Crythin Gifford has lived with that for fifty years. It's changed people."
Fill in the gap: "the very edge of the horizon where life and ＿＿＿＿＿ meet together"
Kipps, Chapter 7
Answer: "the very edge of the horizon where life and death meet together"
Fill in the gap: "I should lie awake in a chill of ＿＿＿＿＿, going over that time, those events, those places"
Kipps, Chapter 1
Answer: "I should lie awake in a chill of sweat, going over that time, those events, those places"
Key quote: "the only one left alive ... still affected by it deeply"
Kipps, Chapter 1
Analysis
Kipps shows that the haunting has left him with lasting trauma. The phrase tells us his isolation as the last survivor still affects him many years later.
Key quote: "she had no friends - or immediate family - ... something of a recluse?"
Kipps, Chapter 3
Analysis
This description shows Mrs Drablow's extreme isolation. Living cut off from others suggests a life shaped by secrecy and loneliness.
Key quote: "when the tide came in, it would quickly be quite submerged and untraceable"
Kipps, Chapter 5
Analysis
The causeway becomes a symbol of how Kipps is cut off and vulnerable at Eel Marsh House. Being trapped by the tide heightens his isolation and danger.
Key quote: "coldly rejected and whose feelings were so totally left out"
Kipps, Chapter 11
Analysis
This shows Jennet as an outcast, denied her own child by an unfeeling society. The adverb 'coldly' invites sympathy and helps explain her later trauma and rage.
Key quote: "they might have been played with this afternoon and tidied away tonight"
Kipps, Chapter 9
Analysis
The nursery seems frozen in time, as if the dead child were still present. This imagery keeps the past disturbingly alive in the house.
Key quote: "I was paralysed, rooted to the spot ... all the world went dark"
Kipps, Chapter 12
Analysis
The verb 'paralysed' shows Kipps's fear as a physical force he cannot control. The darkness suggests his terror blots out everything else around him.
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