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Extract:
‘There is my daughter,’ said my mother. She beckoned to me. The woman nodded and picked up the suitcase under the coat-rack. She wore a brown coat and a shapeless hat. ‘Does she live far away?’ I asked, seeing the difficulty she had going out of the house with the heavy case. ‘In Marconi Street,’ said my mother. ‘Number 46. Remember that.’
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Question (i)
List any two sensory details present in this extract.
Answer:
Answer as written by the student:
Two sensory details present in this extract are "the difficulty she had going out of the house with the heavy case" and "She wore a brown coat and a shapeless hat".
Step-by-step explanation: 📝
- Sensory details are words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
- To find sensory details in a text, we can look for words that describe how something looks, sounds, smells, tastes, or feels.
- In this extract, one sensory detail is "the difficulty she had going out of the house with the heavy case", which describes how the woman struggled to carry the suitcase that contained the narrator's mother's belongings. This appeals to the sense of sight and touch.
- Another sensory detail is "She wore a brown coat and a shapeless hat", which describes how the woman looked and what she wore. This appeals to the sense of sight and touch.
Question (ii)
Complete the sentence appropriately.
The phrase "Remember that" suggests that ____________.
Answer:
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