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THINGS FALL APART LQ Can I analyse how Achebe presents women through his language choice structure and form TERMINOLOGY onomatopoeia repetition alliteration sibilance simile metaphor personification . Achebe wrote TFA in response to European novels that depicted Africans as savages who QHHGHG57347WR57347EH57347HQOLJKWHQHG57347E57347WKH57347XURSHDQV5736157347FKHEH57347SUHVHQWV57347WR57347WKH57347UHDGHU57347KLV57347SHRSOH57526V57347KLVWRU57347 with Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart is a triumph of repetition in its own language Its translation in to French by Michel Ligny is a piece of effrontery T his paper analyses th e translatio of repetitions as part of comic musical symbolic and aest heti I d thi i th contex o communalism whic involve th mutua dependenc betwee individual an community Thi depen dence whic provide th foundatio fo people actions characters an iden tities i founde o th vie tha peopl hav comple normativ an spiritua relati India Things Fall Apart is a 1958 English novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe In the novel Achebe explains the role of women in pre colonial Africa Women are relegated to an inferior position throughout the novel Their status has been degraded Ge These resources are to help students who are studying Things Fall Apart as part of the OCR GCSE English and English Literature specifications These pages can be freely downloaded and printed out as required This material may be freely copied for ins THINGS FALL APART. "Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive." . THINGS FALL APART. LQ: . Do I understand how successful students approach Section 1 of the exam?. sophisticated language, topic sentence, developed analysis, analytical terminology, context, struggle presented, comparative language . Things Fall Apart. The Colonization of Africa. AFRICA, circa 1880:. Colonial Literature: . The “Noble Savage” & t. he . “Dark Continent”. Aphra Behn, . Oroonoko. . (1688). : an unjustly enslaved African prince leads a slave rebellion in Surinam –but after defeat, kills his (willing) wife and calmly submits to torture and execution rather than submit.. --Chinua Achebe Nigeria Size 823,770 km 2 (about twice the size of California) growth 2.9% Infant mortalit y 69.46 per 1,000 births Life expectancy 53 Literacy 47% Major religions 50% Muslim (1990s-present). Focuses on the literature produced by both the colonizers and the colonized. Explores the effects of colonization, including social, economic, political, religious effects, and specifically, explores the suffering of colonial cultures. THINGS FALL APART. LQ: . . Can I . analyse. how Achebe presents . the Religious . struggle . through . his language choice, structure and form?. . TERMINOLOGY: . onomatopoeia, . repetition. , alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, . Famous Nigerian author – best known for ‘Things Fall Apart’ (1958). This was a reaction to Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’. (The inspiration for Apocalypse Now). Vultures. This is the name of the next poem you are going to study. . Born 1930 in Nigeria. Writes about the breakdown of traditional African Culture in the face of European Colonization in the . 1800s. .. Sought to educate his fellow Nigerians about their culture and traditions. English 12. Mr. Brown. Mr. . Baun. Warm up Question. Name a couple of things that come to mind when you think about Africa.. http://. www.wordle.net/create. The Story. Mapping Africa Activity. On the blank map fill in all of the African countries that you know of. .