Danger Of A Single Story

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Title

‘They stirred my imagination’

Question 2

Simple sentence

Answer 2

‘I’m a storyteller’

Question 3

Time markers

Answer 3

‘at the age of two’ ‘at about the age of seven’ ‘I was 19’

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

‘It saved me from having a single story of what books are’

Question 5

Anecdote

Answer 5

‘Their poverty was my single story of them’

Question 6

One sentence paragraph

Answer 6

‘She assumed that I didn’t know how to use a stove’

Question 7

Triaddic structure

Answer 7

‘no possibility of Africans being similar to her in any way, no possibility of feeling more complex than pity, no possibility of a connection as human equals.’

Question 8

Anecdote/emotive language

Answer 8

‘I had bought into the single story of Mexicans and I could not have been more ashamed of myself.’

Question 9

Repetition/plural

Answer 9

‘Stories matter. Many stories matter.’

Question 10

Juxtaposition

Answer 10

‘Stories can break the dignity of s people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.’

Question 11

Metaphor/inclusive pronouns

Answer 11

‘when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.’