Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston Flashcards
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Genre
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Autobiography
2
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Audience
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People who like extreme sports
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Structure
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Contrast of active voice to passive voice
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Subject
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Extreme sports, hiking in canyons, expeditions
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Reader’s feeling
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Anxious
Nervous
Tense
Confused
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Purpose
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To entertain, inform
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Author
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Aron Ralston
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Perspective
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1st person narrative, present tense
9
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How does writer use language and structure to convey the dificulties that he faces.
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He shows:
- confident
- lost control
- panicked
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Lost control
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- change to passive voice “Anxiety has my brain tweaking” –> can’t control his brain
- personification “falling toward my head consumes the sky “
- temporal markers “Instantly”, “In slow motion”
- listings “36-39”
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Panicked
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- dialogue / - exclamation marks “Get out of there!”, “Come on… move!”
–> internal conversations to persevere and not overthink - sibilance “I stare at the sight” –> he is in shock
- hallucinations “apocryphal story” –> under brain tricks
- short sentences “I’m franctic, and I cry out…” –> emphasises panic
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Confident
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- mathematical language “eleven or twelve feet high” –> conscious of setting / clear vision of environment
- expert terminology “controlling this counterpressure” –> emphasizes confidence / advanced level in hiking.
- active voice “I kick”, “I lower”, “I traverse” –> he has everything under controll and consicous of his actions
13
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Last sentence
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Nothing. –> Short sentence
