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A passage to Africa group D :, During the war, Italy had administrate…
A passage to Africa group D :
structure
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short sentence
habiba had died
the short sentence shows how quickly these events happened. the plain tone in the short sentence reveals how natural and common it is for an innocent child to starve to death, this will make the audience feel uncomfortable because of the simplicity of death .
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The use of short sentence when the writer wrote about Habiba's death shows us that it is very common and that there have been many occasions on the news of kids dying etc. therefor the writer may not want to waste time on it writing about the exact same incident over and over again.
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language techniques
rhetarical questions
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how could it be
this is almost a sarcastic tone, which represents how unusual and odd it is for people to be happy
similes
"like a ghost village"
The fact that he describes the village as ghost village suggests that its soulless which suggests that its such a depressing place to be in
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context
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“shot in the leg as the retreating army of the deposed dictator ... took revenge on whoever it found in its way.“
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During the war, Italy had administrate control over Somalia.
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People were left to live in poverty and hunger and in between the years 1991-1993, three hundred thousand Somalis had died.