A game of polo with a headless goat

Question 1

‘ We waited for eternity’

Answer 1

Time marker hyperbole impatient fed up Nothing exciting seems to be happening she feels “mark silly “with her zoom lens no race to photograph at this point phrase ‘beginning to lose faith’ writers contrast to the guide who are still confident race will take place

Question 2

‘ Race’

Answer 2

Repetition of the word race introduces the subject of the Extract

Question 3

Nerves of steel

Answer 3

Metaphor symbolise his temperament as well as his skill driver had to stay calm

Question 4

The race was over

Answer 4

Short declarative sentence after climax of race anti climatic

Question 5

Final para

Answer 5

Left on a slightly hanger as we don’t know who won or who got injured. The boys find it amusing the writer has maturity to see the consequences of an inexperienced driver taking the wheel and doesn’t find it funny