Monday, October 18, 2010

Figurative language

  • "He stopped short and was still as death. But all was quiet, so it must have been his fancy."  (Part 1, Chapter 7).
  • "All at once he heard distinctly a faint cry, as though some one had uttered a low broken moan"  (Part 1, Chapter 7).
  • "it is as if he had two separate personalities, each dominating him alternately" (Part 3, Chapter 2).
  • "while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions--it's like a dream" (Part 3, Chapter 3).
  • "I did not care a damn whether I would spend the rest of my life like a spider catching them all in my web and sucking the living juices out of them" (Part 5, Chapter 4)
  • "Which all men shed," he put in almost frantically, "which flows and has always flowed in streams, which is spilt like champagne" (Part 6, Chapter 7).
  • "His legs felt suddenly weak, a cold shiver ran down his spine, and his heart seemed to stand still for a moment, then suddenly began throbbing as though it were set free" (Part 3, Chapter 6).
  • "Raskolnikov’s burning and intent eyes grew more penetrating every moment, piercing into his soul, into his consciousness" (Part 4, Chapter 3).
  • "Seven years, only seven years...seven years as though they were seven days" (Epilogue 2).
  • "tears stood in their eyes" (Epilogue 2).
  • "What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!" (Part 6, Chapter 2).
  • "...everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him...Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!...vile creature!...And vile is he who calls him vile for that" (Part 2, Chapter 6).
  • "At one minute she is worrying like a child" (Part 4, Chapter 4)
  • "His garret was inder the roof of a high, five storied house, and was more like a cupboard than a room." (Part 1, Chapter 1)
  • "And it seemed to him all at once that he was turned to stone, that it was like a dream in which one is being pursued" (Part 1, Chapter 7)

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