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8Grade English Preap
A Tale Of Two Cities
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Full Title | A Tale Of Two Cities |
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| Type of Work | Novel |
| Genre | Historical Fiction |
| Language | English |
| Time and place Written | 1859, London |
| Date of first publication | published in weekly serial form between April 20, 1859, and November 26, 1859 |
| Narrator | Narrator is Anonymous and can be thought of as Dickens himself. Maintains a clear sympathy for the story's morally good characters; Criticizes ruthless and hateful figures. Speaks in third person |
| Point of view | Switching his focus between cities and among several characters. Supplies historical content as well as thoughts, emotions, and motives of characters. |
| Tone | Sentimental, Sympathetic, sarcastic,horrified, grotesque, grim |
| Tense | past |
| Setting(time) | 1775-1793 (during the French Revolution) |
| setting(Place) | London and its outskirts; Paris and its outskirts |
| Protagonist | Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton |
| Define Anaphora | repetition of a phrase at the beginning of consecutive clauses |
| Define motif | a recurring subject, theme, idea |