Anthology texts Flashcards
1
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The danger of a single story
A
- creates a relationship with the audience (humour)
- She was brought up with no diversity in story books only white western culture
- ‘colour of chocolate’ metaphor
- negative connotations to describe her pity on Fide
- anecdotes
- stereotyping people of colour
- much ignorance and racism in the world
2
Q
H is for Hawk
A
- empathy for the writer
- cyclical structure
- repetition ‘enormous’
- short sentences, adds tension
- ‘brilliance and fury’ juxtaposition
- visual and aural imagery
- ‘like gold falling through water’ simile
- ‘angular skull’ sensory imagery
- ‘like a Victorian melodrama’ simile
- negative lexical field
- negative connotations
3
Q
From Chinese Cinderella
A
- ‘warm wind blowing’ pathetic fallacy
- likes school and doesn’t wan to leave
- ‘like a persistent toothache’ simile
- ‘my heart was full of dread’ hyperbole, terrible feeling
