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1. The writer chooses to begin the extract with a story based on someone's
actual experience. Why do you think he did this?
2. What is the effect of the two short sentences which open the extract?
3. In the third sentence, why does the speaker use a list of three adjectives to
describe the zombie's eyes?
4. Why did Seabrook believe for a moment that he had met a real zombie?
5. Which words tell you he did not really believe this?
6. In the second paragraph, how does the writer use language to convince us
that the zombie is a terrifying creature?
7. Which other creatures are compared to the zombie in the third paragraph?
8. Give two reasons why the zombie's fate is described as "even worse".
9. What is the purpose of this text?
Q1. The writer chooses to begin the extract with a story based on someone's actual
experience. Why do you think he did this?
He did this to make the whole text sound more believable, and to add lively detail to the
factual section which follows it.
Q2. What is the effect of the two short sentences which open the extract?
They create drama and tension.
Q3. In the third sentence, why does the speaker use a list of three adjectives to describe the
zombie's eyes?
They help the reader to build up a picture of the zombie, making the writing more dramatic.
Q4. Why did Seabrook believe for a moment that he had met a real zombie?
He had seen 'so much previously in Haiti that was outside normal experience' that he thought
it might be a real zombie.
Q5. Which words tell you he did not really believe this?
The words which tell us he didn't really believe this are: 'for a flash of a second', 'panicky
lapse' and 'maybe'.
Q6. In the second paragraph, how does the writer use language to convince us that the
zombie is a terrifying creature?
The writer uses the phrase 'one of the most horrifying creatures ever to step from the realms
of the supernatural'. You might also have picked out the phrase 'walking corpse'.
Q7. Which other creatures are compared to the zombie in the third paragraph?
Zombies are compared to vampires and werewolves.
Q8. Give two reasons why the zombie's fate is described as "even worse".
The zombie's fate is worse because it can't think, it can't return to human form, it is doomed
to slave labour and it has no memory of its home or loved ones.
Q9. What is the purpose of this text?
The text has two purposes: firstly, to inform us about zombies, and secondly, to entertain.