Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

English Anthology Texts > From A Passage to Africa > Flashcards

From A Passage to Africa Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
Q

Notes on the piece as a whole

A

Autobiography/recount, discursive essay - presents a debate on whether what he does is right or wrong.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

‘A thousand’

A

Deliberately large, round number - shows there were many stories he could’ve told

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

‘Hungry, lean, scared and betrayed’

A

Emotive words in a list for emphasis

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

‘Faces’

A

Synecdoche

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

‘Criss-crossed’

A

Semi-formal register, relating to reader

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

‘Will never forget’

A

Future tense with NO conditional, hook

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

‘End of 1991 and December 1992’, ‘Just outside Gufgaduud’

A

Scene setting, provides context and engages reader

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

‘Back of beyond’

A

Idiom

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

‘Aid agencies had yet to reach’

A

Shows it’s very remote

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Note on who the narrator focuses on

A

The one who affects him the most is not the one who is suffering the most

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

‘Ghost village’, ‘ghoulish’

A

Similar descriptions to provide textual cohesion

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

‘Journalists on the hunt’

A

Not there to help, deliberately shocking metaphor

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

‘The search for the shocking is like like the craving for a drug: you require heavier and more frequent doses the longer you’re at it’

A

Simile, continues, suggests desensitisation

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

‘Same old stuff’

A

Sibillance, dismissive

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

‘Collect and compile’

A

Alliteration

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

‘Comfort of their sitting rooms back home’

A

Shows how people don’t care about things, especially if they’re not affected by it

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

‘There was’ (repeated at the beginning of 2 consecutive paragraphs)

A

Anaphora, provides cohesion

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

‘Final, enervating stages of terminal hunger’

A

Emotive, graphic

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

‘By the time Amina returned, she had only one daughter’

A

Indirect, more moving

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

‘No rage, no whimpering, just a passing away’, ‘simple, frictionless, motionless’

A

Tripling

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

‘Just a passing away… from a state of half-life to death itself’

A

Implies that she never really lived because of poverty and her situation

22
Q

‘Famine away from the headlines….’

A

Quotes his own report

23
Q

‘Drew me’

A

Conventional metaphor

24
Q

‘Decaying, ‘festering, ‘shattered’ etc

A

Shocking and very graphic descriptions

25
Q

‘Deposed dictator […] took revenge on whoever it found in its way’

A

Inhumane, use of ‘it’ also makes them seem much less human

26
Q

‘Gentle V-shape’

A

Juxtaposition, shocking

27
Q

‘And then there was the face I will never forget’

A

Own paragraph, signals what is coming, ‘will’ is definite future tense

28
Q

‘Twin evils of hunger and disease’

A

Deliberately shocking metaphor

29
Q

‘Sucked of’

A

Metaphor, suggests something vampiric

30
Q

‘Degeneration’, ‘disgusting’, ‘revulsion’ etc

A

More shocking vocabulary

31
Q

‘Yes, revulsion’

A

Speech-like, engages reader.

32
Q

‘To be’ repeated x2

A

Anaphora

33
Q

‘Your hands’, ‘you’ve held’

A

2nd person, personalises experience and engages reader

34
Q

‘Will shroud’

A

Definite future tense, morbid

35
Q

‘Fleeting meeting’

A

Rhymes

36
Q

‘It was not’ x2

A

Anaphora, emphasis

37
Q

‘How could it be?’

A

Rhetorical question, makes the reader even more aware of their suffering

38
Q

‘I could not explain’

A

Encourages the reader to think

39
Q

Notes on the face

A

Only talks about it once enough suspense has been built, anticlimactic, especially when compared with other examples of suffering that theoretically should’ve affected him more

40
Q

‘What was it about that smile?’

A

Rhetorical question

41
Q

‘You might give if you felt you had done something wrong’

A

2nd person, engages reader

42
Q

‘Turned the tables’

A

Idiom

43
Q

‘Me and him… us and them… rich world and poor world’

A

Tripling, emphasises contrasts, as would be used in a speech

44
Q

‘Ground down by conflict’

A

Metaphor

45
Q

‘How should I feel to be standing there so strong and confident?’

A

More rhetorical questions

46
Q

‘I could muster’

A

Implies he has very little

47
Q

‘I have one regret’

A

Feels guilty

48
Q

‘I never found out what the man’s name was’

A

Showing his guilt due to the fact that this man has had a profound influence on him but he doesn’t know a simple thing about him, dehumanising

49
Q

‘I owe you one’

A

He’s been shown a new moral viewpoint

50
Q

Notes on ending of passage

A

Not discussing his experiences by the end but it has morphed into a general essay using his experiences as evidence. Last paragraph is a summary

English Anthology Texts (10 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions