Danger of a single story

Question 1

Logos

Answer 1

Building an argument

Question 2

Pathos

Answer 2

Appeals to the emotions, make the audience feel.

Question 3

Ethos

Answer 3

demonstrating credibility to the audience

Question 4

Although i think four is probably close to the truth

Answer 4

ethos, establishes credibility

Question 5

My poor mother was obligated to read

Answer 5

Pathos humour

Question 6

I was reading: all my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.

Answer 6

Listing, uninspiring.

Question 7

We didn’t have snow, we ate mangos and we never talked about the weather.

Answer 7

Juxtaposition, direct opposites.

Question 8

Impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story

Answer 8

More serious, emotive language, collective pro noun-‘we’

Question 9

Mental

Answer 9

Hyperbole.

Question 10

I loved those American and British books I read

Answer 10

Complimentary- engages the audience, does not want to hurt any member of the audience

Question 11

But the unintended consequence

Answer 11

MAke sure she doesn’t sound bitter.

Question 12

So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: it saved me from having a single story of what books are.

Answer 12

Colon draws importance to following clause, ‘saved’- is contrast to title, ‘danger’.

Question 13

‘finish your food don’t you know? people like Fides family have nothing

Answer 13

Pathos-humour, relatable.

Question 14

Their poverty was my single story of them

Answer 14

Logos- critiques herself.

Question 15

‘tribal music’- Mariah carey

Answer 15

Contrast, humour, pathos.

Question 16

She assumed that i did not know how to use a stove

Answer 16

One sentence para reflects a limited view.

Question 17

No possibility, no possibility, no possibility.

Answer 17

Repetition.

Question 18

My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe

Answer 18

Parallel structure, highlights limited view and that x=x.

Question 19

I would see Africans in the same way that I, as a child, had seen Fides family

Answer 19

Draws parallel between herself and roommate, sharing rew[psoniblity and using logos

Question 20

fleecing, sneaking

Answer 20

negative connotations about Mexicans.

Question 21

that sort of thing

Answer 21

dismissive tone. suggesting that writer has moved on from those views.

Question 22

In the marketplace, smoking, laughing

Answer 22

Lack of conjugtion= endless list.

Question 23

I had bought into the single story of Mexicans

Answer 23

The phrasal verb suggests choice.

Question 24

Storys can break the dignity of people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Answer 24

juxtaposition, emphasises possibility with stories.

Question 25

at the end, when we, we regain a kind of paradise

Answer 25

Collective pronoun repeated = shared responsibility.