A Passage to Africa Flashcards
‘hungry, lean, scared’
Triplet of emotive adjectives - creates pity in the reader
‘thousand’
Use of number - shows the impact of war on people
‘I will never forget’
Creates suspense - makes the reader wasn’t to read more and figure out why
‘like a ghost village’
Simile - ironic - inhabitants are in a state of half-death/dying
‘appalled’ ‘impressed’
Contrast in verbs- shows how journalists become desensitised to suffering
‘ghoulish’
Adjective - negative connotations, implies morbid interest in death + suffering
‘sounds callous, but it is just a fact of life’
Declarative sentence - seems emotionally cold but needed to survive as a journalist
‘like the craving for a drug’
Addictive + journalist seek more + more extreme circumstances/stories to gain satisfaction
‘Amina’ ‘Habiba’ ‘Ayaan’
Structure - Use of names - emphasise the people as individuals + increases reader’s ability to emphasise with them - Personalises the story
Paragraph 4
Structure - narrowing focus to mother + her children
‘simple’ ‘frictionless’ ‘motionless’
Adjectives - passive acceptance - no resistance
‘abandoned’
Creates Pathos - heartbreaking decision to leave the vulnerable behind to have a chance yourself
‘Habiba had died.’
Short sentence - emphasises how quickly death occurs
‘ten’
Reference to age - too young to die
‘rotting’
‘rotting’
Parallel sentences for emphasis - Structure
