The Explorer’s Daughter

Question 1

‘Two hours’
‘an hour’

Answer 1

Time markers - Structure - creates anticipation on narwhals moving closer

Question 2

Style 1st Paragraph

Answer 2

Lyrical, poetic + narrative

Question 3

‘Spectral’

Answer 3

Adjective - spray from narwhal like a ghost

Question 4

‘glittering kingdom’

Answer 4

Metaphor - majestic, regal quality

Question 5

‘butter gold’

Answer 5

Metaphor - golden magical light

Question 6

‘Man’
‘Whale’

Answer 6

Contrasting nouns - establishes them as adversaries - sense of epic battle

Question 7

‘ mischievous tricks of shifting light’

Answer 7

Narwhals are ethereal to writer as they are far away

Question 8

Language 2nd + 3rd paragraph

Answer 8

Factual + informative

Question 9

‘necessary’

Answer 9

Adjective - shows hoe important narwhal flesh it to people’s survival- no other source of fuel + need vitamins

Question 10

‘still’

Answer 10

Adverb - writer is anticipating readers disapproval of hunting narwhal + justifying it.

Question 11

‘crucial’

Answer 11

Adjective - shows how important it is for each man to kill a narwhal for his family

Question 12

‘jump’
‘gasp’

Answer 12

Verbs - women are tense on edge/ anticipation

Question 13

‘binoculars’

Answer 13

Noun - emphasises distance from hunt

Question 14

‘like watching avast, waterborne game’

Answer 14

Simile - writer finds the hunt entertaining but not a game for the hunters - matter of survival

Question 15

Paragraph 4 - Structure

Answer 15

Long complex sentence- shifting focus from women as a group at beginning to individual women + their reactions

Question 16

Paragraph 5 - structure

Answer 16

Shift from narrative to factual information

Question 17

‘very’

Answer 17

Intensifier - build tension - stillness + silence of hunger before making their kill

Question 18

‘huge’

Answer 18

Adjective - makers Gunter seem vulnerable in comparison

Question 19

‘head’
‘heart’

Answer 19

Contrasting nouns - logically knows Inhuit need to hunt narwhal - Emotionally she wants narwhal to survive

Question 20

‘capsized’ and ‘drowned’

Answer 20

Verbs - risking his life so far from shore

Question 21

‘to dive, to leave, to survive’

Answer 21

Tricolon - emphasises her desire for narwhal to survive

Question 22

‘How can you possible eat seal?’

Answer 22

Rhetorical question- to represent readers’ objection to hunting

Question 23

‘over’ and ‘over’

Answer 23

Repetition - Structure - scale of objection to hunting

Question 24

‘only’ ‘only’ ‘only’

Answer 24

Repetition - necessity - all other food has to be imported

Question 25

‘twice’

Answer 25

Use of number - how few supplies are delivered

Question 26

‘Hunting is still an absolute necessity in Thule.’

Answer 26

Declarative sentence - her opinion emphasised by use of intensifier