Answers: "Let the river stand"
1. "Silly as a chook" (line 2) and "dumbly as cows" (line 9)
2. "What Bob later said"
3. One of the following is required:
4. Three of the following are required:
5. One of the following is required:
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2. "What Bob later said"
3. One of the following is required:
- To include the reader;
- To make the reader one of the children/observers;
- To make the passage conversational/chatty/informal;
- To create more immediacy of involvement for the reader'
- To make the passage seem more like a re-telling
4. Three of the following are required:
- She stared directly at the children;
- Her command;
- She didn't speak to her father;
- She comes to school on a tractor;
- Standing on the tractor balancing on her old man's shoulder.
5. One of the following is required:
- Working class;
- Enjoys telling stories;
- Tells stories descriptively;
- Informal/chatty/colloquial tone;
- Sense of humour;
- New Zealander;
- Lives in a rural area.
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