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ENGLISH LANG > THE EXPLORERS DAUGHTER > Flashcards

THE EXPLORERS DAUGHTER Flashcards

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What is her perspective?

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She is an insider and an outsider

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‘…narwhal catching the light in a spectral play of colour’

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Imagery
Narwhal associated with beauty
Connotations

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‘…turning butter-gold, glinting off man and whale’

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There together
Descriptive lang
Beautiful scene

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‘…instead mischievous tricks of the shifting light’

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Almost dream-like

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‘the hunters were dotted’

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Size of it (sheer scale)
Nature and man
Shows how vulnerable they are

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What is the effect of the paragraph in the middle (scientific)?

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Changed detached scientific tone
Structure
Unemotive and informational
Alternating paragraphs shows her contrasting and conflicting thoughts between facts and personal experience

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‘…soft billows of smoke’

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Sibilance
Contrasts with the hunt which is incredibly dangerous

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‘the mattak or blubber’

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Insider and outsider
Expert/scientific lang
Authority
Unique perspective

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‘valuable’

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Contrast; is it necessary
Valuable, beautiful, necessary

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‘ancient’

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Tradition

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‘…women clustered on the knoll of the lookout’

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Imagery
Makes you understand tension and danger

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‘crucial’

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Stresses the necessity of it

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‘…had to sit very still’

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Shows how vulnerable they are and dangerous it is

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‘…split second my heart leapt for both hunter’

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Metaphor
Shows conflicting thoughts
Consideration and care for both participants of the hunt

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‘foolhardy… respect’

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Juxtaposition
Conflicting thoughts

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‘…flimsy kayak’

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Emphasizes danger
Descriptive language

17
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‘…the hunters and their families’

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Not Inughuit
Outsider with a closer personal angle

18
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‘hunting is still an absolute necessity in the Thule’

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Structurally finishes with a short matter of fact sentence

19
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‘and I know that one cannot afford to be sentimental…’

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Incomplete sentence
Shows confliction and confusion

20
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‘the narwhal… are intelligent creatures’
‘senses are keen… talk to one another’

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Shows she has respect and sympathy for them
Believes they are intelligent

21
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‘Tupilak’

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Shows her understanding of Inughuit culture

ENGLISH LANG (10 decks)

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