A Passage To Africa

Question 1

Negative adjectives

Answer 1

‘I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces’

Question 2

Simile/supernatural imagery

Answer 2

‘like a ghost village’

Question 3

Supernatural imagery

Answer 3

‘In the ghoulish manner of journalists on the hunt for the most striking pictures’

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

‘search for the shocking is like the craving for a drug’

Question 5

Repetition

Answer 5

‘Habiba had died. No rage, no whimpering, just a passing away’

Question 6

Sensory language

Answer 6

‘the smell of decaying flesh.’

Question 7

Short paragraph

Answer 7

‘And then there was the face I will never forget.’

Question 8

Emotive language

Answer 8

‘My reaction of everyone else I met that day was a mixture of pity and revolution.’

Question 9

Personification

Answer 9

‘The degeneration of the human body, sucked of its natural vitality by the twin evils of hunger and disease,’

Question 10

Rhetorical question

Answer 10

‘how could it be?’

‘what was it about that smile?’

Question 11

Repetition

Answer 11

Smile

Question 12

Triadic structure/juxtaposition

Answer 12

‘Without uttering a single word, the man had posed a question that cut to the heart of the relationship between me and him, between us and them, between the rich world and the poor world.’

Question 13

Oxymoron

Answer 13

‘So, my nameless friend, if you are still alive, I owe you one.’