The Explorer’s Daughter Flashcards
‘Two hours’
‘an hour’
Time markers - Structure - creates anticipation on narwhals moving closer
Style 1st Paragraph
Lyrical, poetic + narrative
‘Spectral’
Adjective - spray from narwhal like a ghost
‘glittering kingdom’
Metaphor - majestic, regal quality
‘butter gold’
Metaphor - golden magical light
‘Man’
‘Whale’
Contrasting nouns - establishes them as adversaries - sense of epic battle
‘ mischievous tricks of shifting light’
Narwhals are ethereal to writer as they are far away
Language 2nd + 3rd paragraph
Factual + informative
‘necessary’
Adjective - shows hoe important narwhal flesh it to people’s survival- no other source of fuel + need vitamins
‘still’
Adverb - writer is anticipating readers disapproval of hunting narwhal + justifying it.
‘crucial’
Adjective - shows how important it is for each man to kill a narwhal for his family
‘jump’
‘gasp’
Verbs - women are tense on edge/ anticipation
‘binoculars’
Noun - emphasises distance from hunt
‘like watching avast, waterborne game’
Simile - writer finds the hunt entertaining but not a game for the hunters - matter of survival
Paragraph 4 - Structure
Long complex sentence- shifting focus from women as a group at beginning to individual women + their reactions
Paragraph 5 - structure
Shift from narrative to factual information
‘very’
Intensifier - build tension - stillness + silence of hunger before making their kill
‘huge’
Adjective - makers Gunter seem vulnerable in comparison
‘head’
‘heart’
Contrasting nouns - logically knows Inhuit need to hunt narwhal - Emotionally she wants narwhal to survive
‘capsized’ and ‘drowned’
Verbs - risking his life so far from shore
‘to dive, to leave, to survive’
Tricolon - emphasises her desire for narwhal to survive
‘How can you possible eat seal?’
Rhetorical question- to represent readers’ objection to hunting
‘over’ and ‘over’
Repetition - Structure - scale of objection to hunting
‘only’ ‘only’ ‘only’
Repetition - necessity - all other food has to be imported
‘twice’
Use of number - how few supplies are delivered
‘Hunting is still an absolute necessity in Thule.’
Declarative sentence - her opinion emphasised by use of intensifier