AMC Passage to Africa

What is the Passage to Africa about?

• A journey to Africa

• A dedication to Africa

• A report on the war in Somalia

• An autobiography of the author

What type of writing is the Passage to Africa?

• Fiction

• Biography

• Autobiography

• Poetry

What does the author expect from the readers?

• To cover every text discussed in class

• To choose their own anthology text

• To answer questions 4 and 5 on the exam

• To write a dedication to Africa

What does the author mean by 'betrayed faces'?

• Faces of people who have been deceived

• Faces of people who have suffered

• Faces of people who have lost hope

• Faces of people who have been abandoned

What does the author use to emphasize the isolation of the village?

• A list of adjectives

• A simile

• A hyperbole

• A rhetorical question

How does the author describe the manner of journalism?

• Gentle

• Empathetic

• Ghoulish

• Compassionate

What does the author mean by 'the same old stuff'?

• Images of people experiencing terrible things

• Images of people in poverty

• Images of people suffering from hunger

• Images of people in war zones

What does the author use to create an awful image of the woman's injury?

• Parallel sentence structure

• Hyperbole

• Anaphora

• Appeal to senses

What does the author mean by 'half-life'?

• A life filled with suffering

• A life without hope

• A life on the verge of death

• A life of poverty

What does the author feel when holding the hand of the mother?

• Pity

• Revulsion

• Empathy

• Guilt