Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A Game of Polo with
a Headless Goat
- Genre
- Travel writing
- Clear focused plot
- Highly descriptive
- Includes some factual
info to educate the
reader
- Makes wider
inferences
about humanity
- Autobiographical
- Reveals Levine's
attitudes and values
- Narrative often interupted by her
thoughts, afterthoughts and
comments
- Draws on her family's love of sport
- Structure
- Opening
- In midst of the action
- Very descriptive first 3 paragraphs to set
the scene and atmosphgere
- Slow paced to reflect
tranquility of location
- Middle
- Pace picks up in paragraph 4
- Short sentences
- active verbs
- Literary language
- Onomatopeia
- similes
- Metaphors
- sensory language
- adjectives
- onomatopeia
- Ending
- Change of tone
- Violent verbs
- Increased tension
- Yaqoob and Iqbal's behavior
changes
- Humourous
- Lightens the mood
- Laughs off potential danger
- attitude remains
amused and indulgent