From A Passage to Africa Flashcards
“I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces…”
“hungry, lean, scare”
>Hungry-starving, effects of war
>scared-the Somalian people are terrified by the
reporters
>The writer are trying to make the reader feel sorry for
the Somalian people
>adjectives
>Introduction. This lets the reader know the first impression of the writer when he saw the Somalian people struggling.
“The shattered leg has fused into the gentle V-shape of a boomerang.”
> “shattered”
Shattered-Shows the severity of what happened to
her leg.
Shows how bad the shot was.
imagery
Line 28 of the text. This lets the reader visualise how bad the people in Somali are being treated because of the gun violence
“And then there was the face I would never forget.”
> “never forget”
Shows that it was a life-changing moment and that he
was shocked.
Shows how significant that moment was to him.
Short sentence
Only sentence in the paragraph. It might be on its own paragraph to show that this part is the main point of the story and it’s really important to catch the readers attention.
“Natural vitality by the twin evils of hunger and disease”
> “Twin evils”
Twin evils-Shows that the diseases are horrible
Shows how significant and effect it has on the
Personification
Line 34. This tells us that the two main cause that killed a lot of people in Somalia is because of hunger and the diseases they get.
“What was it about that smile?”
> “smile”
smile-happiness
It does not really fit the story since people around him
are injured/dead.
rhetorical question
Line 52. The writer is confused because of the smile and he does not know why that person is smiling back at him.
