Bone Sparrow
This is the name of Subhi's older sister, who tries to protect her younger siblings.
Queeny
This four-letter acronym describes the structure topic sentence, evidence, explain, link.
TEEL
This is the first name of the twelve-year-old protagonist.
Jonas
What is VCASS address?
57 Miles St Southbank
This device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
Simile
This is the ethnic group Subhi's family belongs to, who have fled persecution in Myanmar.
Rohingya
This type of sentence directly answers the essay question and opens a body paragraph
Topic Sentence
This is the community's term for what happens to the elderly, struggling infants and rule-breakers, which Jonas learns is actually killing.
The release
When was the current VCASS building built?
2009
This device gives human qualities to a non-human object or idea.
Personification
This term describes treating a person as less than human, seen in how the guards treat the children in the camp
dehumanisation
This term describes the overall argument or position an essay defends.
Contention
This is the name of the baby who struggles to sleep through the night and cannot be released.
Gabriel
Who is often on Miss Beaumont mug?
Elvis
This device repeats a consonant sound at the start of nearby words, such as "wild and windy."
What is alliteration?
What is the term for how the jackets treat Subhi
Oppression
This term describes explaining why a writer made a choice and what effect it creates, rather than just describing what happens.
Analysis
This is the first colour Jonas begins to see, breaking through the community's colourless existence
Red
Which two teachers went to high school together?
Mr Bowler and Mr Boyd:o
This device uses words that imitate the sound they describe, like "buzz" or "crash.
What is onomatopoeia?
a literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole
Synechdoche
This part of the introduction briefly previews the three main arguments to come.
Signposting
This is the place beyond the community's boundaries that Jonas and Gabriel escape to at the end of the novel
Elsewhere
What teacher used to babysit Miss Beaumont boyfriend?
Mr Mactaggart
This device is an extreme, deliberate exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
Hyperbole