Explorers or boy messing about?

Question 1

Title - ‘Explorers or boys messing about?’

Answer 1

Rhetorical question- asking reader to consider if men in article are responsible or not

Question 2

‘Either way, taxypayer gets rescue bill’

Answer 2

Hypophora (answering the rhetorical question straight after)

Critical tone of 2nd part if headline = critical of expense I’m rescuing them

Question 3

‘farce’

Answer 3

Noun - the expedition is ridiculous - mocking men for being clowns

Question 4

‘tragedy’

Answer 4

Noun - emphasises the danger of expedition ; could have ended in death suggests how badly it could have gone- ill-planned

Question 5

‘Royal Navy’
‘RAF’
‘British coastguards’

Answer 5

Listing - shows the scale of rescue - writer implies it is disproportionate in rescue of just 2 men

Question 6

‘resentment’

Answer 6

Abstract noun - shows how u fake the taxpayers feel it is- waste of taxpayers money

Question 7

‘tens of thousand of pounds’

Answer 7

Use of number to emphasise how much it cost to rescue only 2 men

Question 8

‘questioned’

Answer 8

Past tense verb - implies the 2 men are novices + ill advised to take a single engine = no back up if anything goes wrong
They opposed their choice to bring a small helicopter

Question 9

Paragraph 5+ 6 - Structure

Answer 9

Juxtaposition- contrast in ‘expedition’ in paragraph 5 - implies carefully planned with clear purpose

‘messing about’ in paragraph 6 - suggests lack of purpose for trip + lack of serious planning - that it was predominantly leisure

Question 10

‘trusty’

Answer 10

Adjective - ironic - helicopter was not reliable