The Explorers Daughter

Question 1

‘glittering kingdom’

Answer 1

Metaphor, majestic regal quality light playing off water

Question 2

‘man and whale’

Answer 2

Contrasting nouns, establishes they as adversaries, sense of epic battle

Question 3

‘we’

Answer 3

Inclusive pronoun, writer positions herself with the Inuhuit women

Question 4

‘the women clustered… extra imcome’

Answer 4

Long complex sentences shifting focus from women as a group at the beginning to individuals and their reactions

Question 5

‘like watching a vast waterborne game’

Answer 5

Simile, writer finds the hunt entertaining BUT not a game for the hunters, it’s a matter of survival

Question 6

‘my head…my heart’

Answer 6

Contrasting nouns, logically knows Inhuit people need to hunt narwhal but emotionally she’s wants the narwhal to survive

Question 7

‘only’

Answer 7

Repetition- necessity, all of the other food sources have to be imported

Question 8

‘how can you possibly eat that?’

Answer 8

Rhetorical question to represent readers (western culture) objections to hunting the narwhals