The Explorer's Daughter Flashcards
Kari Herbet
1
Q
two hours agos
A
- singificance of time passing
- temporal marker
2
Q
methodically scrambling
A
- emphasies adverbs
- shows excitement
- juxtaposition from slow movement
3
Q
glittering kingdom
A
- vivid imagery
- metaphor
- magical
- fantasy
4
Q
butter gold
A
- warm gentle
- ethereal language
5
Q
soft billows of smoke
A
- sibilance
- emphasises gentleness
6
Q
hunters close enough to touch the narwhals with their bare hands yet never moved
A
- excitement of hunt
- unrealistic place
- measure become unreliable
7
Q
mattak blubber
A
- specialist language
8
Q
rich necessary minerals vitamins
A
- only want them to sell
9
Q
hunting implement
A
- wale hunting is important
10
Q
women clustered on the knoll of the lookout
A
- shift movement from being monitered
11
Q
every hunter was on the water
A
- superlative
- building up tension
- short sentence
- repetition of ‘hunter’ unites them
12
Q
like watching a waterborne game with the hunters spread like a net around the sound
A
- simile
- importance to everyone
- sympathising with narwhals
13
Q
one hunter
A
- reflects vulnerability
- but heroism
14
Q
split second my heart lept
A
- shows her passionh
15
Q
he was so close and so brave to attempt
A
- reinforces heroicism
- rep of so
16
Q
flimsy kayak
capsized
drowned
A
- semantic field - death suffering
17
Q
to dive to leave to survive
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- triplet
- emphasises deadly formality
18
Q
dilema stayed with me the whole time
A
- wishes for better solution for people to survive
19
Q
beauty
A
- sympathises with narwahal
20
Q
battering
hunter gathers
A
semantic field of suffering
21
Q
hunting is still an absolute necessity in thule
A
- author understands why they need to hunt
- dont have a choice
- moralising tone
22
Q
key themes/ ideas
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- survival/ harshness
- beauty of life
- uniquness
