The Explorer's Daughter Flashcards

Kari Herbet

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two hours agos

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  • singificance of time passing
  • temporal marker
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methodically scrambling

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  • emphasies adverbs
  • shows excitement
  • juxtaposition from slow movement
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glittering kingdom

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  • vivid imagery
  • metaphor
  • magical
  • fantasy
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butter gold

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  • warm gentle
  • ethereal language
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soft billows of smoke

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  • sibilance
  • emphasises gentleness
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hunters close enough to touch the narwhals with their bare hands yet never moved

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  • excitement of hunt
  • unrealistic place
  • measure become unreliable
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mattak blubber

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  • specialist language
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rich necessary minerals vitamins

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  • only want them to sell
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hunting implement

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  • wale hunting is important
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women clustered on the knoll of the lookout

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  • shift movement from being monitered
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every hunter was on the water

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  • superlative
  • building up tension
  • short sentence
  • repetition of ‘hunter’ unites them
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like watching a waterborne game with the hunters spread like a net around the sound

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  • simile
  • importance to everyone
  • sympathising with narwhals
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one hunter

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  • reflects vulnerability
  • but heroism
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split second my heart lept

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  • shows her passionh
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he was so close and so brave to attempt

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  • reinforces heroicism
  • rep of so
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flimsy kayak
capsized
drowned

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  • semantic field - death suffering
17
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to dive to leave to survive

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  • triplet
  • emphasises deadly formality
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dilema stayed with me the whole time

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  • wishes for better solution for people to survive
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beauty

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  • sympathises with narwahal
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battering
hunter gathers

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semantic field of suffering

21
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hunting is still an absolute necessity in thule

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  • author understands why they need to hunt
  • dont have a choice
  • moralising tone
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key themes/ ideas

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  • survival/ harshness
  • beauty of life
  • uniquness