LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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That the boy likes going to the doctor.
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That the boy spend a long time waiting.
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That his dad is really old.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The story’s title, ‘A Day’s Wait’, refers to the boy’s day spent waiting to die, as he believes he will. However, the father, who narrates the story, doesn’t realise that boy believes he is approaching imminent death, and simply ascribes his son’s strange behaviour (such as staring straight ahead) to the illness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Schatz was sad as the entire day he was thinking, that he was about to die. He had heard the doctor saying that his body temperature is one hundred and two degrees and he had a misunderstanding that a person cannot survive over forty-four degrees temperature.
Detailed explanation-3: -In “A Day’s Wait, ‘’ a sick nine-year-old boy, called “Schatz” (German for “darling” or “treasure”) by his father, confuses Fahrenheit with Celsius and imagines that his temperature is fatally high. This false assumption is left uncorrected for an entire day as the boy fearfully waits to die.