Oh, My Papa!

by Yeoh Gim Suan

No Elements Example(s)
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1. Diction i) Easy, understandable, simple and direct words
Her Papa only had eyes for his other children Bee Bee was his
embarrassment.

ii) unfamiliar words

river looks picturesque
partly shrouds the pinnacles
The stalactites and stalagmites
2. Sentence structure i) simple sentences
It was here that Bee Bee discovered her lost childhood.

ii) compound sentences

Uncle Chiam taught her all about phonography and the tricks of
the trade.

iii) complex sentences

With the projector whirring softly in the room, she showed him
glimpses of yesteryears from the joyful time when her mother
was alive through the years up till Bee Lans last days with
them.
3. Tone i) sad
Loneliness was her constant companion in the home and she
used to day-dream that her Papa would one day notice and love
her, too.

ii) sympathetic
Realisation dawned on him and Eng Leong broke down and
sobbed over the wasted years between him and Bee Bee.
4. Organization i) flashbacks (middle part of the story)
Twenty years ago those happy days all captured in film
ii) current time (beginning and end of the story)
Bee Bee gingerly guides her father down the plank onto the
bamboo raft at the edge of the Lijiang in Guilin. beginning
Their next destination on their itinerary the huge limestone
cave.