Death By Mud

Q4)a) The mudslides washed away roads and bridges leaving the
transportation medium completely futile which prevented the rescue teams
from being able to send their rescue vehicles to rescue the survivors. The
weather was bad and the volcanic eruption released billowing smoke which
contained ash in it which blurred view of the people in the helicopter which
lead to lack of visibility of the rescuers and thus slowed down the rescue
process.

Q4)b) They lacked any pieces of cloth that they could use to treat the
survivors and lay them on. They also lacked proper medicine for the people
who were rescued and treating them with that medicine was really difficult.

Q5) The text is a non fictional article on the tragic volcanic eruption in
Chinchina, Turkey where a deadly mud took down many people. The title of
the text is quite direct and gives the readers an idea of what the text is about.
The writer also added personalized first line mentioning the experiences of
Francisco Agnello which helped the readers to get a better idea of what it
would be like to experience such a situation. This text was written in a 3 rd
person and impersonal tone throughout the text which helped the text to be
more informative. The writer made the text interactive and simple for it to be
suitable for all types and ages of readers to read.
The text is abundant with a variety of different
language features which enhanced the experience conveyed by the text and
made it more lively. The writer used metaphors like “blanketing all five with
mud” and “gruesome embrace with the dead” and “heroically” which made
the text more lively with a surreal feel added to the text. The writer also
added alliterations which made the text more lively and rhythmic making it
more fun to read some examples are “rescuers and relief” and “sepulchral
silence”. He also added personification which made the text more interesting
by endowing an abstract idea with human attributes “sepulchral silence
reigned over the devastated town”. The writer also added metonymy in the
text which added a better sense to the text and made it easier to understand
and read example is “colored goo”.
 The writer did not add any information in the text
inside parentheses which decreased the amount of information and its depth a
little bit but led to a livelier. The writer also gave quotations of on spot rescue
workers which made the text more realistic and made the emotions of the text
more raw and thus making it more intriguing for the readers.
The writer used many different structural features
in the text to make it interesting to the readers. The writer added multiple
paragraphs in the text with change in setting to make the text less
monotonous. The writer also added statistical data in the text to make it more
informative and added pictorial description in the text to make it livelier for
the readers to read. The writer also added simple, complex and compound
sentences in the text to make it full of variety with simple language and
diverse adjectives and a variety of accessible vocabulary to make it suitable
for every reader. Overall, the text was very interesting and had the perfect
mix of many language features.