English Language Non-Fiction Anthologies Flashcards
The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
F - speech, A - live audience, P - persuade/inform, Perspective - positional point of view: from her personal experiences, thoughts and feelings: single stories of things are very dangerous, main techniques: anecdotes, emotive language, self-deprecates herself, uses colloquial tone, repetition + personal pronouns.
A Passage to Africa, George Alagiah
F - memoir, A - western audience, P - inform, Perspective - positional point of view: journalist + from his own personal experiences, thoughts and feelings: war is horrible + degrading, no one understands how much pain, suffering + trauma he has to go through + war should be avoided at all costs, main techniques: emotive language, repetition, de/re-humanisation, colloquial language + visceral images.
The Explorer’s Daugther, Kari Herbert
F - memoir, A - western audience or urban city people, P - inform + entertain, Perspective - positional point of view: onlooker + from her personal experiences, thoughts and feelings: nature is beautiful, peaceful + still, narwhals are intelligent, hunts have tension + suspense in them, she doesn’t know which side to pick (narwhals or hunters), she is powerless in outcome of hunt, main techniques: facts, light imagery, contrast, semantic field of waiting, distance + stillness.
Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill, Steven Morris
F - newspaper article, A - wealthy people, P - persuade/inform/entertain, Perspective - positional point of view: news reporter, thoughts and feelings: rich men are just messing about + wasting money that could be used for better causes, main techniques: humour, comedy, sarcasm + colloquial language.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
F - memoir, A - people who are interested in climbing + extreme sports, P - inform/entertain, Perspective - positional point of view: experienced climber + then in event, thoughts and feelings: tension + suspense, danger, unfamiliarity, main techniques: vernacular of climbing, hyperbole, alliteration + sense of disconnection between his body + mind.
Young and dyslexic? You’ve got it going on, Benjamin Zephaniah
F - opinion newspaper article, A - dyslexic people + non-dyslexic people, P - inform/advise/persuade, Perspective - positional point of view: dyslexic person, thoughts and feelings: dyslexic people can do things, dyslexic people are more accepted + understood now, main techniques: anecdotes, opinion as fact, repetition, semantic field of empowerment + positivity, personal pronouns + emotive language.
A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat, Emma Levine
F - memoir, A - western audience, P - inform, Perspective - positional point of view: from her personal experiences, thoughts and feelings: race takes long time to start, everything was very loud, danger, Pakistan is very different to where she came from, chaotic, exhilaration and exciting, Yaqoob was very skilful young + inexperienced driver, main techniques: hyperboles, opinion as fact, parentheses, comedy, onomatopoeia, semantic field of chaos and confusion + contrast.
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan, Jamie Zeppa
F - memoir, A - western audience, P - inform, Perspective - positional point of view: from her personal experiences + journalist, thoughts and feelings: unfamiliarity, nature is wonderful, Bhutan is amazing, people are great, not fully remote as parts of other cultures have infiltrated into Bhutanese culture, special and different from other Asian countries, main techniques: semantic field of nature and beauty, facts, opinion as fact, contrast, comedy + sense of distance.
H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
P - entertain, A - bird enthusiasts , F - memoir, Perspective - positional point of view: from her personal experiences, thoughts and feelings: first hawk was impressive until she realised that it was wrong bird + that second one was even larger + more powerful, second hawk didn’t feel right for her after she had taken some of details of it in + professional falconer understood her, main techniques: light, dark + religious imagery, contrast, semantic field of strength, varied sentence structures.
Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah
P - inform, A - western audience, F - memoir, Perspective - positional point of view: from her personal experiences, thoughts and feelings: her dad is amazing + extremely kind + generous, she should be proud of what she achieved, she loves school + she wants to be like her siblings, main techniques: building tension + suspense, metaphors, subverting expectations, self-deprecates herself, hyperboles + semantic field of disconnection.
