English language Flashcards
Between a Rock and a Hard Place notes
Use of adverbs ‘instantly’ and ‘instinctively’
A passage to Africa notes
Observing rather than getting into it (shows gap between journalists and interviewees)
they are immune to the shock of the hunger
imagery
Complex sentence: Damascene conversion!!
Writers attitude has changed throughout the passage
repetition of smile
repetition of sensory language
Explorers daughter notes
hyperbole-majestic colourful imagery-semantic field of colour
vivid dramatic imagery to add to the beauty and majestic narhwal sounds
Asyndenton (listing thing) builds tension
Adverb intently shows how everyone was watching
writes how important the narwhals are to the peoples survival (strong vocab)
Describes the narwhals and creates empathy
Irony
Power of three and repeated sound of v-sense of tragedy as she doesn’t want the narwhal to die
Rhetorical question shows how people make asumptions
my heart leptt for both hunter and narwhal-conflict and feels scared for the narhwal but also the hunter
By protraying the vital importance of the hunt, the write highlights the contradiction in her loyalties
