Non-Fiction texts (Prose) Flashcards
The Danger of a single story.
Key ideas in the piece.
Prejudice/ poverty
Racism/race
The danger of a single story.
What are the key perspectives?
- Passionately against prejudice
- Sympathy to the marginalised
- Adichie believes everyone should be equal.
The danger of a single story
Best quotes in the text.
- My American roomate was shocked by me. - hyperbole and a simple sentence
- A single story of Africa: a single story of a catastrophe - Anaphora
- They stirred my imagination - metaphor
A Passage to Africa
What are the key ideas?
- Suffering
- Poverty (rich vs poor)
- Disgust
- Journalist vs subject
A Passage to Africa
What are the key perspectives?
- Sympathy + Empathy
- Journalism is emotionally challenging
- Disgust vs sympathy
A Passage to Africa
What are the best quotes?
- Habiba had died - simple sentance
- Like the craving for a drug - similie
- And then there was the face I will never forget - single line paragraph
- how could it be? - rhetorical question
The explorers daughter
What are the key ideas?
- Survival
- Danger
- Beauty
- Hunting
- Conflicted emotion
The explorers daughter
What are the key perspectives?
- Awe
- Anxious towards hunting
- Sympathy for narwhals
- Respect for narwhal + hunter
The explorers daughter
What are the best quotes?
- the glittering kingdom - metaphor
- Every hunter was on the water - simple sentence
- my heart leapt for both hunter and narwhal - confliction
- to dive, to leave, to survive. - tricolon
Explorers or boys messing about?
What are the key ideas?
- Adventure
- Expertise
- Rescue
Explorers or boys messing about?
What are the key perspectives?
- Stupidity
- Childish
- Waste of time
Explorers or boys messing about?
What are the key quotes?
- “nothing short of a miralce” - speech marks adds mocking tone
- Both men are eperience adventurers - simple sentence
- have hit the headlines - alliteration
- they’ll probably have thier bottoms kicked - colloquial language - childish
127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
What are the key ideas?
- Danger
- Survival
- Adventure/ climbing/ exploration
127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
What are the key perspectives?
- Fear
- Confidence –> panic
127 hours : between a rock and a hard place
What are the key quotes?
- I come to another drop-off - simple sentence
- Fear shoots my hands oer my head. - Passive sentence
- Then silence. - Minor sentence
- right now. - itallics
Young and dyslexic? You’ve got it going on.
What are the key ideas?
- Betterment
- stereotyping
- Creativity
Young and dyslexic? You’ve got it going on.
What are the key perspectives
- Part of the problem
- creativity is important
- dyslexic people = superheros
Young and dyslexic? You’ve got it going on.
What are the key quotes?
- We are the architechts, we are the designers - anaphora
- I just had self-belief - simplensentence
- no compassion, no understanding and no humanity - triplets
- we’ve got it going on - collective pronouns
A game of polo with a headless goat
What are the key ideas?
- Danger
- Chaos
- Sport
A game of polo with a headless goat
What are the key perspectives?
- Fear/ anxiety
- Stupidity
A game of polo with a headless goat
What are the key quotes?
- fired up - hyperbole - excitement
- formula one without rules - metapor
- yacoob loved it - simple sentence
- voices were raised, fists were out and tempers rising.
Beyond the sky and the Earth : Journey into Bhutan
What are the key ideas?
- peacfulness
- beauty - Landscapes and buildings
- Heritage
Beyond the sky and the Earth : Journey into Bhutan
What are the key perspectives?
- Respect for the people
- Admiration for avanced culture
- Blown away Bhutan
Beyond the sky and the Earth : Journey into Bhutan
What are the best quotes
- Simple sentence - they don’t even have traffic lights
- mountains rise to meet the moon - metaphor and alliteration
- last line - admiration
- Kindess from people
