A passage to Africa (English) Flashcards
What device is ‘hungry,lean,scared’
Triplet of emotive adjectives
What device is ‘like a ghost village’
Simile but also ironic as most inhabitants are dead
What device is ‘ghoulish’
Adjective with negative connotations
What device is ‘on the hunt’ and what could it mean
Metaphor and that they pray on peoples suffering
What device is ‘like craving a drug’
Simile
What device is ‘Appalled’ and ‘impressed’
Contrasting verbs
What device is ‘Purid’
Adjective
What device is ‘struggling’
Adjective it’s pathos shows the reader that the person is desperately clinging to life
‘Twin evils of hunger’
Imagery
What device is ‘It touched me in a way’
Metaphor
How does the focus change
From ‘one thousand’ to one man to make the reader see the individuals arms the real suffering
What device is ‘Yes revulsion’
Short sentence directly addressing readers
How does the focus change in para 4
The focus narrows to a mother and her children with names
What device is ‘turned the tables’
Idiom
