CHINESE CINDERELLA

Question 1

What is the form?

Answer 1

Memoir

Question 2

‘time went by relentlessly’

Answer 2

Negative word
Running out of time in school

Question 3

‘end… the end of school forever’

Answer 3

No opportunity for higher education
Repetition emphasises the end

Question 4

‘typhoon the next day’

Answer 4

Pathetic fallacy
Bad thing coming?
Builds tension

Question 5

‘like a persistent toothache’

Answer 5

Simile
Chronic pain won’t go away

Question 6

‘then why are you taking me home?’

Answer 6

Distant home life
Question shows genuine confusion

Question 7

‘inside, it was quiet and cool’

Answer 7

Not homely and cosy

Question 8

‘Little Sister’

Answer 8

Not her real name
Capitalisation
Gender and birth order
Emotionally distant family dynamic

Question 9

‘see me in his room?’

Answer 9

Rhetorical question shows shock

Question 10

‘Father’

Answer 10

Capital
Shows important position

Question 11

‘Holy of Hollies’

Answer 11

Connotations of God (extreme importance and power)
A place where women cannot go which shows shock and relationship

Question 12

‘ruse… trick me’

Answer 12

Semantic field
Thinks she is being tricked

Question 13

‘Sit down! Sit down!’

Answer 13

Repetition
Direct speech
Imperative verb
Shows her farther is very secure of his power and dominance over his children

Question 14

‘is it possible? Am I dreaming? Me, the winner?’

Answer 14

Tricolon
Repeated rhetorical questions
Shows shock

Question 15

‘I was quite pleased’

Answer 15

Understatement even in his praise

Question 16

‘I had given him face’

Answer 16

Metaphor/idiom
Respect and honour

Question 17

‘I only had to stretch out my hand to reach the stars’

Answer 17

Hyperbole
Metaphor
Shows desperation for recognition and praise which she does not receive often

Question 18

‘how come YOU won?’

Answer 18

Italics
Surprised
Patriarchal society
Did not expect it

Question 19

‘he laughed approvingly’

Answer 19

Good answer
Humble as expected of a young chinese daughter

Question 20

‘I asked boldly’

Answer 20

Adjective
Shows her perspective as a young female chinese student

Question 21

‘as it dawned on me’

Answer 21

Changes her life
Dawn of a new day and so starts the rest of her new life

Question 22

‘does it matter what you do after you get to heaven?’

Answer 22

So excited isn’t thinking about practicalities

Question 23

‘I plan to study literature. I’ll be a writer.’

Answer 23

Sounds determined

Question 24

‘scoffed’

Answer 24

Patronising and dismissive

Question 25

‘You will go to England’

Answer 25

Definite
Stating facts and will not be argued with

Question 26

‘foolproof profession for you’

Answer 26

Expects her to fail otherwise
Literally calling her a fool (implication in word construction)

Question 27

‘Don’t you agree?’

Answer 27

Rhetorical question as he isn’t asking
Expects her to agree
Shows inequality of power in relationship

Question 28

‘Third Brother’

Answer 28

Children to bring honour and success to family not individuality and emotions/feelings

Question 29

What are the themes?

Answer 29

Parental control
Education
Ambition/determination
Role of women
Parent/child relationship

Question 30

‘bliss was it in that dawn to be alive’

Answer 30

Refers again to the dawning of her new life

Question 31

‘Wordsworth’s poem’

Answer 31

Responds to her new medical path with a poem
Structure shows her true passion/love

Question 32

‘very, very much’

Answer 32

Repetition due to her deference