A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat, Emma Levine

Question 1

Genre

Answer 1

travel writing, extract from a book

Question 2

Audience

Answer 2

people interested in unusual sports or people who like to travel

Question 3

Subject

Answer 3

donkey race

Question 4

purpose

Answer 4

make people appreciate this unusual sport

Question 5

Perspective

Answer 5

1st person past tense

Question 6

Author

Answer 6

Emma Levine

Question 7

Levine’s thoughts and feelings

Answer 7

Anticipates the race
Excitement
Ends with Fear

Question 8

Anticipates the race

Answer 8

Builds suspense “Nearly one hour later”
“Are they coming?”
“We waited an eternity”

Question 9

Tone

Answer 9

Informal “lads”

Question 10

Excitement

Answer 10

“neck-and-neck”close race
metaphor”this was Formula One without rules”
sound 21”roaring”, “revved up the engine”
onomatopoeia “horns tootin, bells ringing”
listing 33 “;nerves of steel, and an effective horn.”
“There were two races”
metaphor “language growing more colorful”

Question 11

Ends with fear

Answer 11

“And then trouble began” ironic, indicates change and possible danger
triplet “voices were raised, fists were out and tempers rising” people were becoming slightly angry as they betted money.
“it’s starting to get nasty” makes the reader feel nervous
fear of being with a driver with no licence, and thinking what could have went wrong.