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Anthology Section A

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Mind Map on Anthology Section A, created by Theodore Barclay on 06/05/2015.

Mind Map by Theodore Barclay, updated more than 1 year ago

	Created by Theodore Barclay over 10 years ago

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Anthology Section A

Passage to Africa
1. Key Points
  1. Journalist's account of a Somalia famine.
  2. Haunted by a meeting with a stranger
  3. A seminal moment in his life that he tries to explain
2. Key Quotes
  1. "The face I will never forget"
  2. "Like craving for a drug"
  3. "simple, Frictionless Motionless
    1. RULE OF 3
  4. "Pity and revulsion"
  5. "The journalist observes, the subject is observed
3. Key features
  1. Use of anecdotes.
  2. similes
  3. Triplets
  4. emotive language
  5. balance and comparison
Explorer's Daughter
1. Key points
  1. An account of hunting narwhals by inuit people
  2. Not for sport, for survival
  3. Presentation of a dilemma: who does she support?
2. Key quotes
  1. "The glittering kingdom...Butter gold"
  2. "my heart also urged the Narwhal to dive, to leave, to survive"
  3. "This dilemma stayed with me"
3. Key features
  1. Mixture of figurative writing in descriptive passage
  2. facts (often in brackets)
  3. head v heart
  4. Use of verbs in triplets
Explorers, or boys messing about?

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