Lines on a photograph (2006 exam paper)(1) The wind (there’s always wind
on this headland) flattens the tussock, makes the sea’s blue bluer even than your camera could catch it. Still (5) it’s your best photograph to date. The tussock’s golden, flattening to yellow in the wind, sometimes to brown. It’s like hair. I’m quite small: (10) in my red shirt and blue trousers and what could be a gun in my arms I’m a small tin soldier standing in the middle of your photograph. It’s all I know how to do. (15) If the wind blows any harder it’ll take me with it, melting me into all that blue. I’m only a part, but I’m at the centre. Without me it wouldn’t be a photograph. Questions: 1. Identify ONE verbal language feature used in lines 1–8 (“The wind … It’s like hair.”) to help youunderstand what the scenery in the photograph looked like. Give an example of this feature. Verbal feature: Example: 2. (a) Identify TWO things that the person in the photograph notices about himself when he looks at the photograph. He notices that: He also notices that: (b) Explain how at least ONE of these things helps you understand why photographs can be important to the person looking at them. ANSWERS (NCEA Level 1 English revision guide. 2007 edition, Really Useful Resources, pg. 29) (NCEA Level 1 English revision guide. 2009 edition, Really Useful Resources, pg. 35) (NCEA Level 1 English revision guide. 2011 edition, Really Useful Resources, pg. 17) |