Pride and Prejudice — Quotes

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STAGNATE

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a goo…

FREE INDIRECT DISCOURSE / IRONIC NARRATORIAL VOICEEPIGRAMMATIC STRUCTURE

Narrator · Chapter 1, Opening Line

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STAGNATE

In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You…

SEMANTIC FIELD OF CONFLICT / MILITARY METAPHORSYNTACTIC FRAGMENTATION

Mr Darcy · Volume 2, Chapter 11 (First Proposal)

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STAGNATE

A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing f…

ECONOMIC QUANTIFICATIONAUSTEN'S IRONIC FRAMING

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1

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STAGNATE

If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield, and all the…

EUPHEMISM & SEMANTIC EVASIONCONDITIONAL MOOD / MATERNAL WISH

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 3

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STAGNATE

You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves

HYPERBOLE & SOMATISATIONTHE BENNET MARRIAGE AS FOIL

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 1

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STAGNATE

I am sure I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller's regiment went away…

HYPERBOLE & ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTAUSTEN'S INDIRECT FORESHADOWING

Mrs Bennet · Chapter 7

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PROGRESS

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a str…

ANTITHETICAL PARALLELISMCOMIC INTERVENTION & POWER

Mr Bennet · Chapter 20

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STAGNATE

Your mother will never be easy till she has exposed herself in every town in Eng…

HYPERBOLE & CONTEMPTMARITAL DYSFUNCTION AS SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Mr Bennet · Chapter 41

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STAGNATE

My reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every cler…

ENUMERATION / CATALOGUE STRUCTUREDRAMATIC IRONY / COMIC BATHOS

Mr Collins · Chapter 19 (Proposal to Elizabeth)

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STAGNATE

Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effec…

BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTAUSTEN'S SATIRICAL LENS

Mr Collins · Chapter 19

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STAGNATE

Lady Catherine de Bourgh... has condescended to advise me to marry as soon as I …

DEFERENCE AS CHARACTER DEFININGCOMIC SATIRE OF PATRONAGE

Mr Collins · Chapter 19