Scythe
Trance
Digging
Telemachus
Visual Literacy
100
Who is the author of Scythe?
Neal Shusterman
100
What type of poem was Trance?
Free verse elegy
100
What is it called when a poem starts and ends with the same/similar line and/or image?
Cyclical poem
100
Define intergenerational trauma.
When trauma is passed down consciously and/or unconsciously.
100
What are the THREE main categories when analysing an image?
Colour, Composition and Symbols
200
Name THREE Scythes who write journal entries in the book.
Curie, Goddard, Faraday...
200
What were the ghost gums symbolic of in the poem?
Ancestral spirits
200
What is kinesthetic imagery?
Kinesthetic imagery is descriptive language that conveys physical movement, muscle tension, and bodily sensations
200
What did the water represent in the poem?
Past trauma and memories
200
What is a salient image?
The main image - where the eye is drawn first.
300
What is the last Scythe Commandment?
"Thou shalt be beholden to no laws beyond these."
300
Why was/is pituri used amongst Indigenous communities?
To relieve pain - harsh climate and experiences
300
What Irish revolt was Heaney writing through?
The Troubles
300
What is The Odyssey about?
Epic poem that follows the Greek hero Odysseus on his ten-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, where he must overcome mythical monsters and defeat arrogant suitors to reclaim his kingdom and reunite with his family.
300
What is a vector?
Visible or invisible directional lines that guide a viewer's eyes from one element to another within an image
400
What does the ring stand for in Scythe? What technique is used here?
Immunity - motif
400
Who is the author of Trance?
Ali Cobby Eckermann
400
What does the spade symbolise in the poem?
Symbolic of the hard physical labour, heritage, and traditional rural life of the speaker's father and grandfather
400
What techniques are used in this line?
'The cathedral
in his sea-black eyes'
Enjambment, contrast, symbolism, synecdoche
400
What is the foreground vs the background?
The foreground is the visual layer closest to the viewer, while the background is the furthest layer in the distance
500
What does CCRAMIT stand for?
Corruption, Complacency, Rebellion, Autonomy, Immortality, Morality, Transhumanism
500
What is the Dreamtime in Indigenous culture?
Describes how the world was created. It represents a system of spiritual beliefs, laws, and moral codes explaining the creation of life, landscapes, and animals by ancestral spirits
500
What is an anecdote?
An anecdote is a short, interesting, or amusing story about a real person or event
500
Name FOUR characters in The Odyssey.
Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and various divine and monstrous figures like Athena, Polyphemus, Circe...
500
Identify THREE visual techniques in this image:
Colour contrast, vectors, pointed/sharp lines, proportion