Anthology: From The Explorers Daughter Flashcards

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What is the Audience?

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Adult or Education, people who want to know, writing to inform, people who would rather read fact over fiction.

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What is the purpose of the passage?

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To educate about how the Narwhal is needed and entertain while providing a vivid picture of the beauty of the Arctic. Moral dilemma, hunting vs preservation.

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Genere?

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Autobiography: informing, entertaining, sharing cultures like traveling writing.

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What is the Voice?

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1st Person

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Structure?

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1st Paragraph is about the story, 2nd paragraph is very poetic with the 3rd explaining the life.

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It can be linked?

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Linked to game of polo with a headless horse (displaying culture and adventure).
Can be linked to a passage from Africa because it is very biographical.

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adjectives?

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butter-gold

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the way the light is portrayed?

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  • catching the light in a spectral play of color.

- glittering kingdom.

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How is excitement portrayed?

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using commas which lead to short phrases and excitement.

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How are the whales looked at as intelligent?

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Using words such as methodically.

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How are the men portrayed?

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men are small and insignificant, but are looked at as brave and heroic.

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How is the Arctic looked at as different from the real world?

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‘Distances are always deceptive’ measurements differ. Uncertainty may reveal a later dilemma.

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How is punctuation used to build tension?

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using ellipses, first paragraph.

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where is informative text used?

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paragraph 2

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How does the writer show that this moment is important?

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‘fortunate to witness there annual return’ end of paragraph 2.

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Vocabulary to suggest that the Narwhale is what survival evolves around.

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‘central beam’ Paragraph 3.

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How is the tension built through paragraph 3?

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The writer mentions how dependent everyone is on the narwhal again adds to the tension.
One of the hunters is also unsuccessful which shows the difficulty.

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How is the catching of the whales portrayed as exciting to watch and tense?

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‘waterborne game’ end of paragraph 3.

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How is sympathy created for the Narwhals?

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Paragraph 5, ‘Narwhals’ are intelligent creatures

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How is sympathy created for the Hunters?

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Poor equipment, animals needed to survive. ‘the hunters had no rifle, just one harpoon’

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danger of men?

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Could be easily capsized and drown

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Conjunction?

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And, yet

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repetition?

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So close, so brave

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Intro:

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Travel writing.
contains a range of styles from emotive to infomative
Text is aimed at people who will be intrested in the issues disgussed

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Informative text:

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rich source of vitamin C

para 2

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simple language?

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hadent been so lucky

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Almost Humor?

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Particular Predilection.

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Onemaptipea?

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battered

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Hyperbole?

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gazing out over the glittering kingdom?

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person

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1st

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rhetorical question?

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How you possibley eat seal?

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similes?

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like a net around the sound