Anthology texts

Question 1

The danger of a single story

Answer 1

• creates a relationship with the audience (humour)
• She was brought up with no diversity in story books only white western culture
• ‘colour of chocolate’ metaphor
• negative connotations to describe her pity on Fide
• anecdotes
• stereotyping people of colour
• much ignorance and racism in the world

Question 2

H is for Hawk

Answer 2

• empathy for the writer
• cyclical structure
• repetition ‘enormous’
• short sentences, adds tension
• ‘brilliance and fury’ juxtaposition
• visual and aural imagery
• ‘like gold falling through water’ simile
• ‘angular skull’ sensory imagery
• ‘like a Victorian melodrama’ simile
• negative lexical field
• negative connotations

Question 3

From Chinese Cinderella

Answer 3

• ‘warm wind blowing’ pathetic fallacy
• likes school and doesn’t wan to leave
• ‘like a persistent toothache’ simile
• ‘my heart was full of dread’ hyperbole, terrible feeling