Unfamiliar Text Practise

“You’re 100% Wrong About Seafood” is a passage about the writers hatred and disgust for seafood. This hatred for seafood is shown throughout the text by the use of adjectives, and the ways he describes seafood. In the text, the writer says “it also smells pretty disgusting too, even from an impressive distance”. This quote has 2 adjectives that help us understand his opinion of seafood. Firstly, describing the smell as disgusting, it is obvious that he does not like the smell of seafood as he uses a strong negative adjective to state his opinion of it. By knowing that he finds the smell of seafood disgusting, we know that the writer does not even like to be around seafood because of the smell, let alone eat it. Secondly he describes the distance that the smell travels as “impressive”. The word “impressive” is usually used to describe something admirable,or better than average, but the writer uses it in a negative connotation. What he is saying is that it is worse than most things he doesn’t like, and he is impressed by how annoying the distance that the “disgusting” smell can travel.