Great Expectations Rhetorical Analysis
Great Expectations Vocabulary
1) Corroborated (vb) Supported or established by existing evidence. “The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated.”
Pocket corroborated Pip's suspicions that Estella had already taken a huband. Sagaciously (adv) Intelligently or wisely.
“I sagaciously observed, if it didn't signify to him, to whom did it signify?”
Pip dozed off as Pumblechook sagaciously lectured him about the importance of honesty.
Depreciation (n) belittlement. “...Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye...”
Pip could feel the depreciation …show more content…
Pernicious (adj) Extremely deadly; fatal.
“it was poisonous, and pernicious, and infamous...”
Estella was the perfect example of a beautiful flower with thorns of pernicious thorns.
Exhorted (vb) Urged, suggested.
“Hereupon Startop took him in hand, though with a much better grace than I had shown, and exhorted him to be a little more agreeable.”
Pip quickly mended his poor table manners when Pocket exhorted as such.
Indelible (adj) Not able to be erased.
“But for the indelible picture that my remembrance now holds before me ...”
Much to his dismay, the memory of his meeting with the convict was indelible.
Expatriated (vb) To leave one's country.
“that he was not at all likely to obtain a pardon; that he was expatriated for the term of his natural life...”
Feeling as though there was nothing left for him where he was, Pip expatriated to …show more content…
“I was much annoyed by the abject Pumblechook...”
Upon realizing his error, Pip abjectly stammered out an apology.
Consternation (n) Surprise and dismay.
“The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister's observation.”
To Pip's utmost consternation, he realized that he was too late and that Biddy and Joe had already married.
Tithe (n) A levy of one tenth of something.
“Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting-traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam-ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many.”
For tithe Pip paid 20 pounds.
21) Truculent (adj) Fierce and cruel; ready and eager to fight.
“She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.”
Mrs. Joe might never have had to die if not for the truculent Orlick.
Fain (adj) happy; inclined; pleased.
“I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern.”
Joe was fain to support Pip and watch over
1) Corroborated (vb) Supported or established by existing evidence. “The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated.”
Pocket corroborated Pip's suspicions that Estella had already taken a huband. Sagaciously (adv) Intelligently or wisely.
“I sagaciously observed, if it didn't signify to him, to whom did it signify?”
Pip dozed off as Pumblechook sagaciously lectured him about the importance of honesty.
Depreciation (n) belittlement. “...Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye...”
Pip could feel the depreciation …show more content…
Pernicious (adj) Extremely deadly; fatal.
“it was poisonous, and pernicious, and infamous...”
Estella was the perfect example of a beautiful flower with thorns of pernicious thorns.
Exhorted (vb) Urged, suggested.
“Hereupon Startop took him in hand, though with a much better grace than I had shown, and exhorted him to be a little more agreeable.”
Pip quickly mended his poor table manners when Pocket exhorted as such.
Indelible (adj) Not able to be erased.
“But for the indelible picture that my remembrance now holds before me ...”
Much to his dismay, the memory of his meeting with the convict was indelible.
Expatriated (vb) To leave one's country.
“that he was not at all likely to obtain a pardon; that he was expatriated for the term of his natural life...”
Feeling as though there was nothing left for him where he was, Pip expatriated to …show more content…
“I was much annoyed by the abject Pumblechook...”
Upon realizing his error, Pip abjectly stammered out an apology.
Consternation (n) Surprise and dismay.
“The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were too evident to escape my sister's observation.”
To Pip's utmost consternation, he realized that he was too late and that Biddy and Joe had already married.
Tithe (n) A levy of one tenth of something.
“Of barges, sailing colliers, and coasting-traders, there were perhaps, as many as now; but of steam-ships, great and small, not a tithe or a twentieth part so many.”
For tithe Pip paid 20 pounds.
21) Truculent (adj) Fierce and cruel; ready and eager to fight.
“She really was a most charming girl, and might have passed for a captive fairy, whom that truculent Ogre, Old Barley, had pressed into his service.”
Mrs. Joe might never have had to die if not for the truculent Orlick.
Fain (adj) happy; inclined; pleased.
“I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern.”
Joe was fain to support Pip and watch over