Chinese Cinderella

Question 1

Chinese Cinderella

Answer 1

Connotations of the fairytale Cinderella and how she has mistreated but ultimately this triumph and adds to a sense of hope

Question 2

Time went by relentlessly

Answer 2

Adverb relentlessly highlights her in pending dread about returning home engaging reader because they want to know why

Question 3

My heart was not in it, and I was losing steadily

Answer 3

She doesn’t confide in her friends-she’s isolated in a group-immediately evoking pay us and sympathy from the reader

Question 4

Outside, it was hot…. Typhoon the next day.

Answer 4

Pathetic fallacy
The intense heat and storm is mathematic of her emotional foreboding

Question 5

Full of forboding

Answer 5

Fricative f sound sounds aggressive-intensifying the ominous mood as she prepares to go home

Question 6

First middle section

Answer 6

Volume of questions reveals her lack of power
Ominous mood generates curiosity
The reader is interested in and engaged as s she doesn’t know what’s going on

Question 7

Holy of holies

Answer 7

Biblical/religious connotations creates a sense of her father being God like
Metaphor conveys the sense of all she feels at this powerful being
Aspirated constonants creates a breathy sound which suggests a sense of worship and importance cleverly magnified by summoned

Question 8

Summoned

Answer 8

Imperative verb, reinforces her lack of choices and his power

Question 9

Relaxed, smiled, happy, nice

Answer 9

Use of positive verbs, reverts the expectation for reader had of the father
Subverts our expectations of an authoritative formal parent and creates contrast and interest

Question 10

Sit down, sit down, don’t look so scared

Answer 10

Use of imperatives convey fathers power and control-father is a traditional patriarch
Don’t look so scared -he realises that he scares her he is sensitive enough

Question 11

Is it possible? Am I dreaming me? The winner?

Answer 11

Short paragraph
Free indirect discourse
Triad structure
The triad of rhetorical questions delivered in free direct discourse changes the tone and mood

Question 12

For once he was proud of me

Answer 12

Single sentence followed by multiple clauses sentence paired with the hyperbole my whole being vibrated with all the joy in the world

Question 13

My whole being vibrated with all the joy in the world

Answer 13

Free indirect discourse
Makes reader happy for her- alternatively the euphoria indicates how little she is praised-creates pathos
Hyperbole

Question 14

Going to England is like entering heaven, does it matter what you do after you get to heaven?

Answer 14

Noun heaven suggests she cannot think of a better place to go
Simile : England
Adaline clearly considers her future in a positive way

Question 15

He scoffed ,you were going to starve

Answer 15

Scornful dismissal of her ambition
Short emphatic sentences indicate a forceful attitude

Question 16

I waited in silence. I did not wish to contradict him.

Answer 16

Single line paragraph creates suspense as she waits
Patriarchal and cultural attitudes convey in the use of imperative and repetition

Question 17

Thank you very, very much

Answer 17

Grateful
Not rebellious
Submissive to his higher authority and compromises

Question 18

Genre

Answer 18

Autobiography about her childhood
Take from book

Question 19

Audience

Answer 19

General

Question 20

Purpose

Answer 20

To entertain,
to describe,
to reflect
To process the trauma