CHINESE CINDRELLA

Question 1

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

Answer 1

simile
shows she doesn’t have a good home life and dreads returning there
shows the contrary to normal school children’s lives because normally kids hate going to school

Question 2

i ran downstairs as in a nightmare, wondering who had died this time’

Answer 2

shows she rarely goes home and has a bad home life, associates going home with tragedy

Similie

Question 3

Holy of Holies- a place to which i had never been invited.’

Answer 3

presents her dad as a god-like figure
suggest she fears him
is rejected by him because she’s not even allowed in his room without an invitation

Question 4

‘Is it possible? Am i dreaming? Me, the winner?’

Answer 4

tricolon
rhetorical questions
shows she doubts herself

Question 5

‘How should I know’

‘Don’t you know anything

Answer 5

Even the cheshffer is rude to her

She goes home so little that she forgot they moved house

Question 6

I wondered why he was being so nice

Answer 6

Frightened of her own father

Question 7

I as white pleased to tell him you are my daughter

Answer 7

Never proud

Makes him loook good

Question 8

Perhaps I was the only one determine enough to enter

Answer 8

Modest

Question 9

Going to England is like entering heaven

Answer 9

Similie

Getting as far away from her father and family as possible

Question 10

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive

Answer 10

Alluded to Wordsworth shows she loved literature and is very intelligent as she is only 14