Watching Pip play cards, Estella says, "He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy!" What does her diction reveal about her?

Darcy says, "My good opinion once lost is lost forever." Which trait does the absolute phrasing reveal?

Lady Macbeth invokes spirits to "unsex me here." What does that imperative reveal about her at this moment?

Bartleby repeats, "I would prefer not to." What does the repeated formula reveal about him?

Iago says, "I am not what I am." What does the paradox reveal about his character?

Jane says, "The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." What does this insistence reveal?

Poe's narrator says, "when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge." What motive does the sentence establish?

Macbeth admits, "I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition." What motive remains?

Elizabeth says, "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine." What motive does this confession expose?

The creature says, "I am malicious because I am miserable." What motive does the causal wording supply?

Shylock asks, "if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" What motive does the question establish?

Hamlet says, "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." What does he want the play to accomplish?

After learning of her husband's death, Mrs. Mallard whispers "free, free, free!" What change does the whisper mark?

Scrooge says, "I am not the man I was." What change is directly asserted?

Elizabeth says, "Till this moment I never knew myself." What has changed?

Huck decides, "All right, then, I'll go to hell." What change does the decision mark?

Lear asks Cordelia, "Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish." What change is evident?

Jane tells Rochester, "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me." What has she arrived at in saying this?

Macbeth says, "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" creeps toward "the last syllable of recorded time." What recognition does the speech show?

Hamlet says, "there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow" and "the readiness is all." What has he arrived at?

Over Desdemona, Othello cries, "O fool! fool! fool!" What does he now understand?

Kurtz's final words are "The horror! The horror!" What recognition can those words support?

Nick begins, "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice." What does this NOT establish?

Bartleby says, "I would prefer not to." What does the line stop short of establishing?

"Call me Ishmael" opens a narration. What does the sentence NOT establish?

Hamlet says, "Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 'seems.'" What does the line NOT establish?

Poe's narrator asks, "but why will you say that I am mad?" What does the question show about the account to follow?

The creature says, "Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded." How does bias shape this report?

Lockwood calls Wuthering Heights "A perfect misanthropist's Heaven." How does the phrase color his account?

Nick says he is "inclined to reserve all judgments." What bias does that claim build into his narration?