Answers: Our friends in the north (abridged radio interview)
1a) One of the following points is required:
1b) One of the following points is required (depending on what feature and example you chose from above:
2) Tautoko FM is like a compass because it tells the reviewer 'where you are, who lives there, what the weather's like, what goes on' (lines 15-16). The compass simile is appropriate because the author uses the radio station to find out factual information about the area she is driving through such as film festivals and social services. Once she is out of radio range, she is left 'roaming' aimlessly as she no longer has her 'compass' to guide her.
3) The following ideas are required:
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- 'To avoid nasty collisions with commercial radio stations';
- 'Both seemed discordant with the landscape surrounding me'.
1b) One of the following points is required (depending on what feature and example you chose from above:
- 'To avoid nasty collisions with commercial radio stations':
- Sarah is driving a car, and therefore doesn't want to have a nasty crash;
- The second meaning is metaphorical - she is trying to avoid her radio colliding with a commercial radio station. - 'Both seemed discordant with the landscape surrounding me'.
- The two CDs are discordant with the surroundings because they do not match well;
- Discordant is also a musical terms meaning that sounds are harsh or unpleasant.
2) Tautoko FM is like a compass because it tells the reviewer 'where you are, who lives there, what the weather's like, what goes on' (lines 15-16). The compass simile is appropriate because the author uses the radio station to find out factual information about the area she is driving through such as film festivals and social services. Once she is out of radio range, she is left 'roaming' aimlessly as she no longer has her 'compass' to guide her.
3) The following ideas are required:
- The tone of the conclusion is appropriate because it maintains the informal tone of the text. Colloquial terms such as 'Chooooiiiiiiice' help to maintain this tone;
- The conclusion continues the theme of the text. The author has said that independent radio can be an 'honest reflection' of the communities that they serve. The conclusion shows that Tautoko FM does this because it takes requests from people in the area.
- The final line, 'I'd lost contact and I was back to roaming, in the words of Che Fu, the misty frequencies,' provides a contrast through the continuatino of the compass metaphor. Now she is no longer following the compass but 'roaming'. The fact she uses the words of an artist she would have heard on Tautoko FM helps link her leaving the theme of the passage as a whole;
- The negative details which include the rain and flat tyre matches her sadness at leaving Northland and Tautoko FM. This is in contrast to the positive and happy arrival - "sky was pale satin-blue".
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