'A Passage to Africa' Flashcards
(13 cards)
1
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List of Adj
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“hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces”
- Image of suffering - represents the physical conditions
2
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Hyperbole + Listing
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“Take Bedale Road for a … approx”
- Demonstrates and emphasises isolation, alienated
3
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Simile
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“like a ghost village”
- Evokes pathos and illustrates the isolation / inhumane theme of village
4
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Dehumanisation / Language choice
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“hunt”
- Dehumanises the habitants as prey for the photographers
5
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Simile
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“is like the craving for a dug”
- The children’s shocking physical state cause the photographers to want want to be stunned more
6
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Dehumanisation
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“old stuff”
- refers to the Habitants as old stuff. The detrimental physical state is nothing new
7
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Language Choice
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“enervating”
- Exemplifies the poor physical stages of terminal hunger.
8
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Anaphora
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“No rage, no whimpering”
- Emphasises the common misfortune of fatality in Africa
9
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Triplets
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“simple, frictionless, motionless deliverance”
- Further underpins the contrast of death in Africa and developed countries - it is a common misfortune
10
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Parallel Sentence Structure
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“It was rotting; she was rotting”
- Highlights the rotting as “it”- not human anymore
11
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Once sentence para
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“And then there was the face I will never forget”
- Once sentence paragraph highlights the importance of that face - haunts
12
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Disjointed Sentence
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“-how could it be?-“
- Poses question to the reader and alters the mindset
13
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Topic Sentences
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- Sympathise for Somalis
- News Crews apathetic
- We don’t deserve comfortable lives
