From A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Flashcards

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What is the genre of this piece?

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Travel writing

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2
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‘Wacky Races’

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Allusion

Cartoon

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3
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‘Lads’

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Informal/colloquial

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4
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‘For eternity’

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metaphor + hyperbole

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5
Q

‘Perched’

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Connotations of anticipation and instability

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6
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‘Fired up’

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Metaphor

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7
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‘Rather silly’

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Informal/colloquial

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8
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‘Only action was a villager on a wobbly bicycle’

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Anticlimax

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9
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Notes about speech

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Unparagraphed

Makes the piece more fast paced

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10
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‘Roaring up in their wake’

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Metaphor

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11
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‘Dwarfed’

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Metaphor

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12
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‘Achieve speeds of up to 40 kph’

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Facts

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13
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‘Jockeys perched’

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Repeated verb - provides cohesion

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14
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‘Energetically, although not cruelly’

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Shows caring

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15
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‘Tooting’, ‘Rattles’

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Onomatopoeia

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16
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‘Vehicles jostled’

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Personification

17
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‘(Like maracas, a metal container filled with dried beans)

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Provides explanation for reader without directly interrupting flow of text

18
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‘Swerve’

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Chaotic connotations

19
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‘This was Formula One without rules…’

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Analogy, allows reader to understand more easily

20
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‘Survival of the fittest’

21
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‘Quick reflexes…; Nerves of steel, and an effective horn’

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List of 3, contributes to fast pace of paragraph

22
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‘Growing more colourful’

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Euphemism, lightens mood

23
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Notes on sentence structures/variations

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Long sentences used to build up to bigger events, short sentences to increase pace

24
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‘The finishing line, the hospital gate’

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Ironic + humorous

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'The race was over'
Short sentence, emphasis
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'And then the trouble began.'
Conjunction, short sentence for emphasis
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'I assumed'
Implies that original thought was wrong, engages reading by challenging conventional ideas
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'...Fists were out and tempers rising'
Contrast of a concrete noun followed by an abstract noun, gives a better sense of tension at the time
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'Swallowed up by the crowd'
Personification, implies that the crowd is very large and dangerous
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'...I'm underage!'
Punch line of the paragraph, emphatic, humorous
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'Could have caused problems'
Understatement, deliberately vague to be funnier