Literary Devices

"For you, and for any dear to you, I would do anything.-- Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you!" (152-153)

"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.-- A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves a sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it." (150-151)

"The President asked, was the Accused openly denounced or secretly?- 'Openly, President.'- 'By whom?'- 'Alexandre Manette, physician.'" (314).

"When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become." (69)

“‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”

Foreshadow

Foreshadow

Irony

Metaphor

Metaphor