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    Between a Rock and a Hard place by Aron Ralston

    1. Summarise the text in no more than three lines.

    2. This is an extract from an autobiography: what could that tell us


    about the text?
    3. Read the table below. How does the writer’s use of information or
    description help us understand his feelings in the passage?
    Choose one section of your own to comment on.

    INFORMATION OR DESCRIPTION ANSWER (COMMENT ON


    EFFECT)

    4. Copy and complete the table. You may need to write this in your
    books.

    Literary device or Example Effect


    structure

    Emotive language “flaring agony” This phrase shows the


    severe pain the writer is
    going through as the first
    shock wears off. The word
    “flaring” indicates how the
    pain rapidly grows and
    spreads whereas the word
    “agony” suggests the pain
    was extreme.
    Direct speech

    Punctuation

    Technical language
    The use of the present
    continuous

    Ellipsis

    Long sentences

    Short sentences

    Complex sentences
    • A complex sentence
    includes a main
    clause (simple
    sentence) and a
    subordinate
    sentence (adds
    information).
    • Subordinate clauses
    begin with a
    subordinating
    conjunction (before,
    after, even though,
    although, whilst,
    because)
    • If the main clause is
    first, you don't need
    a comma.

    Panicked tone

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