Homework

 Unit 1.3

 Activity 2:

Question 1
- Words in blue are related to buildings such as, rows of houses, wall, houses,
back of warehouse
- Words in blue are related to features of buildings such as, fenced stoeps,
verandahs, warehouse

Question 2
- Words in yellow are related to condition of buildings such as, big sign
painted, same grey, paint and colour-wash, faded and peeled, wide streaks,
black lettering

 Activity 4:

Snack Fruit

Apple

Red
Green
 Tress Darkness

Forest

Wildlife Camping

Morning New day

Sunrise

Blue sky Birds

 Activity 6:

Question (a)
- Declarative sentences are used to state or express the writers’ feelings

Question (b)
- The final sentence, “hate it” evokes strong negative emotions, which gives an
impression that the writer does not welcome the rain.

Question (c)
- Alternative: I am sad about the rain that is falling. “I don’t like it”.
- Effect: words like, “sad” and “I don’t like it”, evoke fewer negative emotions
compared to the word “hate”. As the rain seems to express misery and
sorrow to the writer when using the word “hate”.

 Activity 8:

Question 1

- The nun in the text symbolises social barriers are meaningless when it comes
to helping out in times of crisis, as she gave a helping hand to clean the road.
She does not seem to care about being a nun and is expected to behave in a
certain manner makes her an “unlikely symbol” of cleaning the community.
This is because the church and the way she dresses dictates that they could
confine her to certain activities. While the nun in this text discarded all that in
her habit and decided to clean the roads in the community.

Question: 2
- The nun symbolises that the church always helps out in times of need. This is
because nuns represent the church and, in this text, the nun “helping with
the relief effort” in cleaning the community also means that the church is
aiding people in times of contingency.
 Question: 3
- The nun in the text symbolises women are just as good as men in crisis, as
she “used the power tool” in clearing the road blocks. Power tools need
strong physical strength which makes them difficult for women to handle and
men are more suitable to deal with. However, the nun in this context showed
powerful strength in using the tool and proved that men and women are
equal in times of emergency.

 Activity 9:

Bella Chagall’s purpose in the narrative essay, From the Burning Lights, is to describe what
the author see’s and feels after entering an antique clock shop. Chagall reflects on what is
hidden behind the door that separates her apartment from the shop. She uses verbs such
as, “grope” which reflect an image in the readers mind of her blindly touching walls and
making her own way towards the darkness. This evokes a sense of marvelousness as if the
writer is savouring the moment while discovering the antique shop.
The author incorporates the appeal to senses by using similes and metaphors for the
readers to envision the setting of the store. In the third paragraph, Chagall uses a simile to
compare clocks on the wall, to something buried alive. She goes on to say, “quiet and
soundless, as if buried alive”. Her word choice creates a deathly and lifeless atmosphere.
This enables the reader to envision how still and unmoving the clocks were on the wall. She
also uses a simile in the fifth paragraph to demonstrate how the flashes of silver were
making her eyes feel. The author states, “blinds me like a fire”. This creates a condemning
tone because the author is comparing the flashes of silver to a fire that is blinding her. This
goes to show how strong the reflection of the light is and how powerful it is on the human
eye.
The author also uses a metaphor in the seventh paragraph to describe the height of the
cupboard by saying, “built that they seem to have grown into it”. Creating an awe tone by
its use of descriptive language and imagery This dramatizes the height of the cupboard and
allows the reader to visualize what it looks like.
In the passage, the author uses present tense to show occurrence throughout the text. The
author uses this tense to show the reader, that everything is taking place in the moment. In
the passage, nothing is taking place in the past. The author uses present verb tenses such as
“glass doors slide easily back and forth”, which evokes a calm mood. The author is able to
create a visual image in the readers mind, of how smoothly the glass doors are moving.