A Passage to Africa

Question 1

Passage to

Answer 1

• journey

Question 2

his experience as a television reporter

Answer 2

• autobiographical writing

Question 3

hungry, lean, scared, betrayed faces

Answer 3

• image of suffering
• tricolon
• extended list
• emotive language

Question 4

but there is one i will never forget

Answer 4

• shift
• intrigues the reader

Question 5

back of beyond

Answer 5

• unable to reach

Question 6

like a ghost village

Answer 6

• simile
• haunted
• emphasises depressing place to be
• evokes pathos (misfortune)

Question 7

ghoulish, tramped, hunt

Answer 7

• suffering
• predatory language
• supernatural

Question 8

no longer impressed us much

Answer 8

• juxtaposition
• apathetic

Question 9

like the craving of a drug

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• simile
• desensitised trauma ptsd

Question 10

old

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• dismissive
• dehumanises subject of those images

Question 11

comfort

Answer 11

• juxtaposition

Question 12

enervating
terminal

Answer 12

• emphasises drain of energy
• end

Question 13

habiba has died.

Answer 13

• simple sentence
• clinical tone

Question 14

no rage, no whimpering

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• anaphora
• repetition of ‘no’

Question 15

simple, frictionless, motionless deliverance

Answer 15

• power of three
• no real emotion
• common - habituated

Question 16

half life

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• emphasises awful situation
• emotive language

Question 17

just a passing away

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• people habituated to the idea of cruelty and suffering + death

Question 18

it was rotting she was rotting

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• appeal to senses
• graphic visceral imagery
• parallel sentence - humanises suffering
  repetition of rotting - habituated to it

Question 19

And then there was a face I will never forget

Answer 19

• contrast
• sign posting
• shift to I
• one sentence paragraph - importance

Question 20

pity and revulsion

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• oxymoron
• eternal conflict

Question 21

twin evils

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• personification

Question 22

to wipe your hands on the back of your trousers… who had just cleaned vomit from her childs mouth

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• unhygenic
• visceral language

Question 23

pity, dignity

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• contrast being more modest
• empathy for them

Question 24

i saw that face

Answer 24

• importance reference to before

Question 25

smile

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• repetition
• preoccupation

Question 26

how could it be?
What was it about that smile?

Answer 26

• rhetorical question
• short sentence

Question 27

I had to find out

Answer 27

• short sentence
• urgent tone

Question 28

and then it clicked

Answer 28

• short sentence
• clarity

Question 29

how should i feel to be standing their so strong and confident?

Answer 29

• rhetorical question
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• encourages reader to reflect

Question 30

power and purpose

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• plosive alliteration

Question 31

seminal moment

Answer 31

• most significant

Question 32

my nameless friend, if you are still alive, i owe you one

Answer 32

• oxymoron
• doesn’t know if he lived or not
• informal tone
• short sentence

Question 33

key themes/ ideas

Answer 33

• suffering
• poverty
• classes
• roles of the observe vs the observed