A Passage to Africa Flashcards
George Alagiah
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Passage to
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- journey
2
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his experience as a television reporter
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- autobiographical writing
3
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hungry, lean, scared, betrayed faces
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- image of suffering
- tricolon
- extended list
- emotive language
4
Q
but there is one i will never forget
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- shift
- intrigues the reader
5
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back of beyond
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- unable to reach
6
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like a ghost village
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- simile
- haunted
- emphasises depressing place to be
- evokes pathos (misfortune)
7
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ghoulish, tramped, hunt
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- suffering
- predatory language
- supernatural
8
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no longer impressed us much
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- juxtaposition
- apathetic
9
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like the craving of a drug
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- simile
- desensitised trauma ptsd
10
Q
old
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- dismissive
- dehumanises subject of those images
11
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comfort
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- juxtaposition
12
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enervating
terminal
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- emphasises drain of energy
- end
13
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habiba has died.
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- simple sentence
- clinical tone
14
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no rage, no whimpering
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- anaphora
- repetition of ‘no’
15
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simple, frictionless, motionless deliverance
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- power of three
- no real emotion
- common - habituated
16
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half life
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- emphasises awful situation
- emotive language
17
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just a passing away
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- people habituated to the idea of cruelty and suffering + death
18
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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
19
Q
And then there was a face I will never forget
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- contrast
- sign posting
- shift to I
- one sentence paragraph - importance
20
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pity and revulsion
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- oxymoron
- eternal conflict
21
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twin evils
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- personification
22
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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
23
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pity, dignity
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- contrast being more modest
- empathy for them
24
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i saw that face
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- importance reference to before
25
smile
- repetition
- preoccupation
26
how could it be?
What was it about that smile?
- rhetorical question
- short sentence
27
I had to find out
- short sentence
- urgent tone
28
and then it clicked
- short sentence
- clarity
29
how should i feel to be standing their so strong and confident?
- rhetorical question
- hyperbole
- metaphor
- encourages reader to reflect
30
power and purpose
- plosive alliteration
31
seminal moment
- most significant
32
my nameless friend, if you are still alive, i owe you one
- oxymoron
- doesn't know if he lived or not
- informal tone
- short sentence
33
key themes/ ideas
- suffering
- poverty
- classes
- roles of the observe vs the observed
