Chinese Cinderella

Question 1

cinderella

Answer 1

• connotations of neglect
• unloving family

Question 2

saturday again. eight weeks more

Answer 2

• conscious of time passing

Question 3

perhaps the end of school forever

Answer 3

• lack of control over life
• melodramatic dread

Question 4

the thought of leaving school throbbed at the back of my mind like a persistent toothache

Answer 4

• not alot of control over future
• simile - painful
• increases tension of dread

Question 5

chauffer

Answer 5

• disconnect to family
• wealth

Question 6

full of foreboding

Answer 6

• fricative alliteration
• juxtaposition mention of home brings unsettling feelings

Question 7

wondering who had died this time

Answer 7

• suggest only ever brought home for this

Question 8

your guess is as good as mine

Answer 8

• both left in the dark
• same level as the driver
• parallel with driver

Question 9

short drive

Answer 9

abandonment

Question 10

my heart was full of dread and i wondered what i had done wrong

Answer 10

• personification
• associates being with family as bad

Question 11

i asked foolishly

Answer 11

• self deprecating

Question 12

replied rudley

Answer 12

• bottom of the hierachy

Question 13

i had forgotten

Answer 13

• shows distances with family
• did not even know them moved

Question 14

quiet and cool

Answer 14

• pathetic fallacy
• lovless home

Question 15

see me in his room

Answer 15

• questions
• in disbelief

Question 16

overwhemlmed

Answer 16

• fearful
• distrust

Question 17

summoned
holy of holies

Answer 17

• verb - power
• hierachy
• god like image

Question 18

i breathed a small sigh of relief

Answer 18

• ongoing questions
• mistrust
• fear

Question 19

sit

Answer 19

• imperative

Question 20

dont look so scared

Answer 20

• trying to control emotions
• father commands

Question 21

i think

Answer 21

• euphamism

Question 22

we are proud of you

Answer 22

• juxtaposition
• irony
• cant get praise from her father

Question 23

it is possible? am i dreaming? me the winner?

Answer 23

• series of questions
• reflects low self esteem

Question 24

i was pleased to tell him you are my daughter?

Answer 24

• only pleased because she achieved something
• always about his image

Question 25

for once

Answer 25

• subordinate clause
• happens very rarley

Question 26

perhaps i was the only one determined enough to enter and there were no other competitors

Answer 26

• self deprecating

Question 27

approvingly

Answer 27

• complicated relationship

Question 28

i asked boldly thinking it was now or never

Answer 28

• distance
• juxtaposition
• climax
• subservient language

Question 29

how marvellous it was to simply be alive

Answer 29

• happiness and joy
• hyperbole intense happiness

Question 30

he scoffed

Answer 30

• bellitilling tone
• shows his domiance authority and power over her

Question 31

who is going to read your righting

Answer 31

• speaks longer then yen mah
• shatters her dreams

Question 32

i waited in silence. i did not wish to contradict him

Answer 32

• short sentence paragraph
• refelcts anticipation
• obedient tone

Question 33

you will

Answer 33

• repetition of modal verb
• list of commands

Question 34

dont you agree?

Answer 34

• leading command
• commanding tone

Question 35

of course i agreed

Answer 35

• no possibility to disagree

Question 36

bliss was it in that dawn to be alive

Answer 36

• irony
• still thinks like a writer
• defiance

Question 37

very

Answer 37

• highlights gratefullness
• obedient tone