Chinese Cinderella

Question 1

How does the writer show her thoughts or feelings about her father and family

Answer 1

1 pathetic fallacy shows anxiety and luke warm reception
2similes and metaphors illustrate worry about family and leaving school
3 fricative alliteration- highlights sense of being under threat and anxiety
4 short sentences - no time to think properly, highlight tension
5 powerful vocabulary - fear of father, authority
6 triplets of rhetorical questions - power of lists
7 hyperbolic metaphor- contrast between dread and joy of pleasing father
8 uses poetic line - happiness beyond her own words
9 imperatives - to show how bossy her father is

Question 2

Pathetic fallacy to show anxiety of situation and reception from father

Answer 2

“Warned of a possible typhoon”

“Quiet and cool”

Question 3

Similes and metaphors to illustrate worry about family

Answer 3

“ throbbed at the back of my mind like a persistent tooth ache”
“As in a nightmare”
“My heart was full of dread”

Question 4

Fricative alliteration shows anxiety

Answer 4

“Full of foreboding”

Question 5

Short sentences

Answer 5

“How should I know?”
“Where are we?”
“Don’t you know anything”
“Where is everyone?”

Question 6

Powerful vocabulary - shows authority in what should be normal experience
Fear father as a god in a forbidden place

Answer 6

“Overwhelmed”
“Summoned”
“Holy of Holies”

Question 7

Triplets of rhetorical questions and power of lists
Lists are strong arguments
Here is shock about award

Answer 7

“Is it possible”
“Am I dreaming”
“Me, the winner?”

Question 8

Hyperbolic metaphor shows contrast between dread and pleasing her father

Answer 8

“I only had to stretch my hand out to reach the stars”

Question 9

Poetic line to describe joy
Cannot find her own words for such a happy outcome
Shows love of literature
Shows father doesn’t know her

Answer 9

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”