Danger of a single story

Question 1

‘Stirred my imagination’

Answer 1

Metaphor, American and British books opened up new cultures to her and inspired her imagination to become a writer

Question 2

Final line of paragraph 6

Answer 2

Repetition of ‘single story’ in the title of the speech, she understands stories are multiple and plural not singular and can reflect many cultures and races

Question 3

‘Startled’

Answer 3

Adjective, shows how she had assumed that Fide’s life was deprived due to his financial situation and she realised her internal prejudice assumptions about poverty

Question 4

‘Possibility’

Answer 4

Tri-colon, emphasises her point about the dangers of a single story, shows how narrow minded people are

Question 5

‘Saved by a kind, white foreigner’

Answer 5

Cultural stereotype of Africa for Americans, stereotyped as them waiting to be saved by and ‘white foreigner’ implies Africans ‘need’ the americas aid

Question 6

‘We’

Answer 6

Inclusive pronoun, assumes the audience is on the writers side, trying to change their perspective and to consider their on stereotypes assumptions and to challenge them

Question 7

‘She assumed I did not know how to use a stove’

Answer 7

Shows stereotypical views on what Nigerians babe, roommate was undeducted on different cultures