Jane Eyre - Form, structure and language test questions - AQA

Read the extract from Jane Eyre and answer questions 1-4 below.

"I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again so long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty."

1

How many times does Brontë repeat 'I' in this passage?

2

Why does Brontë repeat 'I' throughout this passage?

3

What type of word is 'miserable?'

4

What does the word 'miserable' illustrate about Mrs Reed's cruelty?

Read the extract from Jane Eyre below and answer questions 5-7 below.

"... it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien. You must be on your guard against her; you must shun her example; if necessary, avoid her company, exclude her from your sports, and shut her out from your converse."

5

Why does Brontë repeat the personal pronoun 'you' in this passage?

6

How does this passage relate to the form of a bildungsroman?

7

What semantic field is apparent in this passage?

Read the passage from Jane Eyre below and answer questions 8-10.

My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, - all energy, decision, will, - were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, - that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at him.

8

In this passage, Brontë lists Rochester's appearance and personality traits. Why has Brontë structured her sentences into lists?

9

Why does Brontë directly address the reader in this passage?

10

Why does Brontë finish this paragraph with a short sentence?