Pride and Prejudice — Quotes

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PROGRESS

Your pride... his pride... for you are really proud of your defects in understan…

LEXICAL REPETITION / SEMANTIC REFRAMINGSUBVERSION OF PATERNAL AUTHORITY

Elizabeth · Volume 3, Chapter 15

3
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

You are mistaken, Mr Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration aff…

FORMAL REGISTER AS WEAPONPARALLELISM & ANTITHESIS

Elizabeth · Volume 2, Chapter 11 (First Proposal Refusal)

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PROGRESS

Till this moment I never knew myself

ANAGNORISIS / EPIPHANIC MONOSYLLABLESBREVITY AS STRUCTURAL VOLTA

Elizabeth · Volume 2, Chapter 13 (After Darcy's letter)

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STAGNATE

My good opinion once lost is lost for ever

EPIGRAM WITH ABSOLUTIST DICTIONDRAMATIC IRONY / PROLEPTIC REVERSAL

Mr Darcy · Volume 1, Chapter 11

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STAGNATE

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the wil…

DECLARATIVE SELF-CHARACTERISATIONPROLEPTIC IRONY

Elizabeth · Chapter 31

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PROGRESS

You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I w…

SEMANTIC FIELD OF EDUCATIONPASSIVE VOICE AS SURRENDER

Mr Darcy · Chapter 58 (Second Proposal)

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STAGNATE

She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me

LITOTES / DAMNING UNDERSTATEMENTDRAMATIC IRONY / GENERATIVE INSULT

Mr Darcy · Chapter 3 (Meryton Ball)

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STAGNATE

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in …

RHETORICAL QUESTION AS PHILOSOPHYIRONY AS EVASION

Mr Bennet · Chapter 57

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REGRESS

I am heartily ashamed of myself, Lizzy. But don't despair — it will pass, and no…

SELF-AWARE BATHOSTRAGIC IRONY BENEATH COMEDY

Mr Bennet · Chapter 48 (After Lydia's Elopement)

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STAGNATE

I have been used to have my opinion consulted in all matters. I am not in the ha…

IMPERATIVE ABSOLUTISMDRAMATIC IRONY — THE FAILED INTERVENTION

Lady Catherine · Chapter 56 (Confrontation with Elizabeth)

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STAGNATE

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

METAPHOR OF CONTAMINATIONRHETORICAL QUESTION AS WEAPON

Lady Catherine · Chapter 56

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REGRESS

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet. I send no compliments to your mother. You d…

ANAPHORA OF NEGATIONCOMIC DEFLATION

Lady Catherine · Chapter 56

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STAGNATE

Mr Darcy can please where he chooses. He does not want abilities. He can be a co…

STRATEGIC CONCESSIONUNRELIABLE NARRATOR DEVICE

Wickham · Chapter 16 (First conversation with Elizabeth)

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STAGNATE

Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose him

PERFORMATIVE CONTRADICTIONAUSTEN'S IRONIC FORESHADOWING

Wickham · Chapter 16

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STAGNATE

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle

THE EXCUSE WITHIN THE ADMISSIONCONTRAST WITH DARCY'S CONFESSION

Wickham · Chapter 52 (via Lydia's account)