A Passage To Africa Flashcards
Negative adjectives
‘I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces’
Simile/supernatural imagery
‘like a ghost village’
Supernatural imagery
‘In the ghoulish manner of journalists on the hunt for the most striking pictures’
Simile
‘search for the shocking is like the craving for a drug’
Repetition
‘Habiba had died. No rage, no whimpering, just a passing away’
Sensory language
‘the smell of decaying flesh.’
Short paragraph
‘And then there was the face I will never forget.’
Emotive language
‘My reaction of everyone else I met that day was a mixture of pity and revolution.’
Personification
‘The degeneration of the human body, sucked of its natural vitality by the twin evils of hunger and disease,’
Rhetorical question
‘how could it be?’
‘what was it about that smile?’
Repetition
Smile
Triadic structure/juxtaposition
‘Without uttering a single word, the man had posed a question that cut to the heart of the relationship between me and him, between us and them, between the rich world and the poor world.’
Oxymoron
‘So, my nameless friend, if you are still alive, I owe you one.’
