Language - Extracts Flashcards
1
Q
Game of Polo
A
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Informal tone
- Tricolon
- Hyperbole
- Short paragraphs
2
Q
Passage to Africa
A
- War imagery
- Repetition
- Alliteration
- Parallelism
- Short paragraph
- Tricolon
3
Q
127 Hours
A
- Present tense
- Lexical field of climbing
- Assonance
- Short sentences
- Metaphor
- Animal imagery
4
Q
Chinese Cinderella
A
- Simile
- Hesitant to speak to father
- Biblical description
- Hyperbole
- Direct speech
- Traditional attitudes
5
Q
Explorer’s Daughter
A
- Contrast
- Long and short sentences
- Anticipation
- Poetic description
- Time markers
- Role of women
6
Q
Young and Dyslexic
A
- Direct speech
- Anecdotes
- Metaphors
- Practical examples
- Poor grammar
- Simple sentences
7
Q
Explorers or boys messing about
A
- Patronising comments
- Listing
- Infantilisation
- Pathetic fallacy
- Expert references
- Short paragraphs
8
Q
Danger of a single story
A
- Powerful climax
- Anecdotes
- Repetition
- Metaphor
- Asyndetic list
9
Q
H is for Hawk
A
- Comparison
- Alliteration
- Metaphor
- Pronouns
- Onomatopoeia
- Simile
10
Q
Bhutan
A
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