The Explorer's Daughter

Question 1

‘glittering kingdom’

Answer 1

• metaphor
• magical, beautiful imagery

Question 2

‘intake of breath’

Answer 2

• in awe
• aural imagery

Question 3

juxtaposition

Answer 3

‘turning butter-gold, glinting off man and whale’

Question 4

sibilance

Answer 4

• ‘southern seas. In summer the hunters’
• foreshadowing the death of narwhals
• factual detached tone

Question 5

‘The narwhal… is an essential contributor to the survival of the hunters’

Answer 5

• change of thought
• factual
• reasons to make her feel less bad
• language choice shows it’s necessity to hunt after romanticizing narwhals

Question 6

‘Every hunter was on the water.’

Answer 6

• short sentence
• important event
• suspense

Question 7

hyperbole

Answer 7

‘my heart leapt for both hunter and narwhal’

Question 8

‘Hunting is still an absolute necessity in Thule’

Answer 8

• assertion
  -confident tone
• personal opinion as fact
• justify limitations of food supply