The narrator of The Little Prince recalls being six: "I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle." What does "pondered deeply" do that "thought about" would not?

An odd little voice wakes the narrator of The Little Prince in the desert: "I jumped to my feet, completely thunderstruck." What does "thunderstruck" do that "puzzled" would not?

In The Little Prince the narrator says: "the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much." What does "peal" do that "burst" would not?

The little prince rejects a drawing in The Little Prince: "A boa constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very cumbersome." What does "cumbersome" say that "large" would not?

In The Little Prince the little prince asks a drinker what he is doing. "I am drinking," replied the tippler, with a lugubrious air. What does "lugubrious" add that "quiet" would not?

The Little Prince closes the drinker's scene: "The tippler brought his speech to an end, and shut himself up in an impregnable silence." What does "impregnable" do that "long" would not?

The snake first appears in The Little Prince as "a coil of gold, the color of the moonlight, flashed across the sand." What does "a coil of gold" do that "a snake" would not?

In The Little Prince the fox calls taming "an act too often neglected" and adds, "It means to establish ties." What sense do these surrounding words fix for "tame"?

In The Little Prince the geographer says his books "never become old-fashioned" and "We write of eternal things." He will not record flowers "because they are ephemeral." What does "ephemeral" mean here?

In The Little Prince a king cries, "Ah! Here is a subject," and the narrator explains, "To them, all men are subjects." What sense of "subject" do these words fix?

In The Little Prince the flower says: "I am not at all afraid of tigers, but I have a horror of drafts. I suppose you wouldn't have a screen for me?" What does "drafts" mean here?

In The Little Prince the lamplighter answers, "Those are the orders," and "Orders are orders." He adds that the planet turns faster each year but "the orders have not been changed." What does "orders" mean here?

In The Little Prince the businessman says: "I administer them. I count them and recount them. It is difficult. But I am a man who is naturally interested in matters of consequence." What does "consequence" mean here?

The Little Prince: "What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well." Later the narrator says, "Everything is ready for use: the pulley, the bucket, the rope." What is a "well" here?

In The Little Prince: "Who are you?" said the little prince. "Who are you--Who are you--Who are you?" answered the echo. "Be my friends. I am all alone," he said. "I am all alone--all alone--all alone," answered the echo. What shapes this writing?

The little prince on his rose: "because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen". Which feature shapes these lines?

In The Little Prince the king says, "I order you to yawn. . . . It is an order." Later: "May I sit down?" came now a timid inquiry from the little prince. "I order you to do so," the king answered. What shapes this passage?

The Little Prince: "Oh, little prince! Bit by bit I came to understand the secrets of your sad little life . . . For a long time you had found your only entertainment in the quiet pleasure of looking at the sunset." What shapes this writing?

Near the end of The Little Prince the prince says, "I, too, am going back home today . . ." and then, sadly, "It is much farther . . . It is much more difficult . . ." What do the trailing dots do?

The Little Prince: "And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . ." What shapes these lines?