Descriptive Words In J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls

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Descriptive words for the characters in Priestley’s An Inspector Calls Taking a different coloured pencil for each character, colour in their names below. Then select descriptive words from the 50 boxes that you feel correspond with the characters. SELFISH SENSITIVE IMPATIENT LYING CONSIDERATE AUTHORITATIVE INSISTANT SARDONIC STERN GUILTY ARROGANT CUNNING SUPERIOR IMPERTINENT MATURE SHARP MISERABLE PERSISTANT ANIMATED PANICKED MANIPULATIVE NAÏVE POWERFUL VILLAIN APOLOGETIC CARING UNRELENTING HYSTERICAL BITTER CONTEMPTUOUS VICTIMISED RESPONSIBLE DECEPTIVE OBSTINATE GRAVE IMPOSING DISTRESSED SCORNFUL VOLATILE TRIUMPHANT INSENSITIVE POMPOUS MYSTERIOUS FRUSTRATING SURPRISED PLAYFUL STUBBORN EMPHATIC ACCUSING FORCEFUL SHEILA…show more content…
Who was harassing Eva/Daisy in the Palace Bar? 2. What phrase is later used to describe him, much to the disgust of Mr and Mrs Birling? 3. Who expresses very definite views as to who is ‘entirely responsible’ for Eva’s death? 4. What does Sheila give to Gerald before he leaves? 5. Why does Mrs Birling remain nonchalant (casual/detached) even when she has seen the photograph? 6. How does Gerald attempt to defend the affair initially? 7. How does the Inspector claim to know so much about her life? 8. Who says this and to whom? ‘I feel you’re beginning all wrong.’ 9. Who says this and to whom? ‘I never take offence’. 10. The Inspector creates a play on the word ‘offence’ – what are the two meanings of the word that become tangled in this Act? 11. Throughout the act, moral judgements are made by the audience and the characters themselves about each other. Who condemns whom here? ‘I think it was cruel and vile’. 12. 13. The Inspector claims that the girl needed more than money. He lists three things – what are they? 14. How does Mrs. Birling give many of her answers? 15. What does the Inspector’s visit expose about Eric that Mrs. Birling claimed not to be aware of? Copyright ©2006 www.englishteaching.co.uk +

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