The Danger of a Single Story Flashcards
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
1
Q
I’m a storyteller
A
- declarative sentence
- confident tone
- short sentence
2
Q
I would like to tell you
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- sign posting
- ‘you’ - addressing audience
3
Q
although i think four is probably
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- coloquial langugae
- anecdote
- makes it more relatable
- repetition of ‘I’ - personal to her, confidence
4
Q
all my characters were white and blue-eyed
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- hyperbole - stresses difference
- list to emphasise difference between adiche and character
5
Q
Camara Laye
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- proper noun shows authenticity
6
Q
opened up new worlds for me
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- hyperbole
7
Q
It saved me from having a single story of what books are
A
- goes back to central idea of the speech
8
Q
Then one saturday
Now
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- signposting
- temporal markers
- colloquial language
9
Q
enormous pity
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- emotive language
10
Q
old clothes
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- stresses lack of material and povert
11
Q
basket
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- passionate about it goes into detail
12
Q
it had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something.
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- stereotypes
- doesn’t think they could actually do anything
- irony
13
Q
how poor they were
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- repetition of ‘poor’
- labeled them
14
Q
their poverty was my single story of them
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- relatable
- shows hows shes imperfect
15
Q
Line 44 - 45
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- ‘She’ - never named makes it more relatable
- long sentences passionate about what she talks about
16
Q
she assumed that i did not know how to use a stove
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- short paragraph line
- impact of racism
- basic - thinks she cant do much
17
Q
kind, white foreigner
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- stereotypes
18
Q
quickly add
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- increase pase
- thinking about story
19
Q
i could not have been more ashamed of myself
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- hyperbole
- focus come back to adiche
- emotive language
20
Q
only one thing
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- repetition
- stresses damage of a single story
21
Q
Line 75 - 77
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- paragraph of extremes
- hyperbole
- metephorical repetition
- shows power of story
22
Q
key themes/ ideas
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- prejudice
- stereotypes
- power of storytelling/ reading/ writing
23
Q
single story
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- conceit - extended metaphor throughout the whole piece
