Explorers Daughter

Question 1

• “Butter gold” , “soft willow”
  
  • “Spectral”, “glittering” , “glinting”
  • “Always slowly, methodically passing each other by”

Answer 1

Admiration for Narwhal
Emphasise beauty and majesty
Mystical setting

- “Butter gold” , “soft willow”
	○ Visual imagery - awe/romantic/fairytale/idyllic
- “Spectral”, “glittering” , “glinting”
	○ Semantic field of light - fascination/beauty of landscape 
- “Always slowly, methodically passing each other by” Subsequent adverbs - “ly”/perpetual state of calm

Question 2

• “narwhal” , “source of vitamin C”
• Alternates between past and present tense
• 2nd and 3rd paragraphs are long

Answer 2

Factually details how
Narwhal is a Multi faced resource
Justify inghuit actions

- “narwhal” , “source of vitamin C”
	○ Authoritative/ scientific 
- Alternates between past and present tense
	○ Present - show that narwhal is a source of food/resource 
	○ Past - always has been a source of food/resource 
- 2nd and 3rd paragraphs are long 
	○ Long informative sentences reinforce justification

Question 3

-“Urged” - lines 47-5
- “To dive, to leave, to survive”
- ”it was like watching a vast waterborne game…”

Answer 3

Conflict between
admiring/sympathising
And understanding inghuit actions

Urged” - lines 47-51
○ Repetitions, emotive verb - intensifies conflictual desires
- “To dive, to leave, to survive”
○ Asyndetic tri-colon, emphasises fear for narwhals survival
○ Conflict on killing the narwhal
- ”it was like watching a vast waterborne game…”
Luck and skill headed - anticipation and uncertainty

Question 4

-“Urged the man on in my head”
- “Source of vitamin C”, ”scurvy”
- Hunting is an absolute necessity in Thule

Answer 4

Explores thoughts about inghiuts
Crafts sense of resolution
Close extract with necessity of hunting

- “Urged the man on in my head”
	○ Synecdoche -  epitomises writer’s moral dilemma head and heart
- “Source of vitamin C”, ”scurvy”
	○ Scientific/informative - necessity of eating 
-  Hunting is an absolute necessity in Thule
	○ Simple last sentence with hunting as subject  Casts the vote in hunters favour