Anthology: From The Explorers Daughter Flashcards
What is the Audience?
Adult or Education, people who want to know, writing to inform, people who would rather read fact over fiction.
What is the purpose of the passage?
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.
Genere?
Autobiography: informing, entertaining, sharing cultures like traveling writing.
What is the Voice?
1st Person
Structure?
1st Paragraph is about the story, 2nd paragraph is very poetic with the 3rd explaining the life.
It can be linked?
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.
adjectives?
butter-gold
the way the light is portrayed?
- catching the light in a spectral play of color.
- glittering kingdom.
How is excitement portrayed?
using commas which lead to short phrases and excitement.
How are the whales looked at as intelligent?
Using words such as methodically.
How are the men portrayed?
men are small and insignificant, but are looked at as brave and heroic.
How is the Arctic looked at as different from the real world?
‘Distances are always deceptive’ measurements differ. Uncertainty may reveal a later dilemma.
How is punctuation used to build tension?
using ellipses, first paragraph.
where is informative text used?
paragraph 2
How does the writer show that this moment is important?
‘fortunate to witness there annual return’ end of paragraph 2.
Vocabulary to suggest that the Narwhale is what survival evolves around.
‘central beam’ Paragraph 3.
How is the tension built through paragraph 3?
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.
How is the catching of the whales portrayed as exciting to watch and tense?
‘waterborne game’ end of paragraph 3.
How is sympathy created for the Narwhals?
Paragraph 5, ‘Narwhals’ are intelligent creatures
How is sympathy created for the Hunters?
Poor equipment, animals needed to survive. ‘the hunters had no rifle, just one harpoon’
danger of men?
Could be easily capsized and drown
Conjunction?
And, yet
repetition?
So close, so brave
Intro:
Travel writing.
contains a range of styles from emotive to infomative
Text is aimed at people who will be intrested in the issues disgussed
