A Passage to Africa Flashcards
1
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alliteration
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‘a village in the back of beyond, a place’
- shows remote harsh experiences
- overwhelmed
2
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simile of village
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- ‘-like a ghost village’
- isolated place
- euphonism for death
3
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simile
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- ‘search for the shocking is like the craving for a drug’
- powerful drive to be a reporter
4
Q
‘same old stuff’
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- sibilance
- colloquialism seems callous
5
Q
‘Habiba had died’
A
- simple sentence
- sudden and shocking
6
Q
oxymoron
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‘from a state of half-life to death itself’
7
Q
‘the smell that drew me to her doorway’
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- sensory imagery
- repetition
- shows how disgusting the conditions are
8
Q
negative lexical field of death
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- ‘decaying flesh’
- ‘wound the size of my hand’
- ‘It was rotting; she was rotting’
- ‘shrivelled’
9
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Juxtaposition
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- ‘It was the feeble smile that goes with apology’
- shows he has become hardened by all the suffering he’s seen
