Australia
The name of the people who inhabited Australia from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous.
What is an Aborigine?
A warning or indication of (a future event).
What is foreshadowing?
A term in Latin that describes when a piece of fiction starts in the middle of a narrative; without preamble.
What is in medias res?
A mode of persuasion that is an appeal to the authority or credibility of the presenter.
What is ethos?
A Scottish general who is the protagonist in one of Shakespeare's most well-known tragedies.
Who is Macbeth?
The capital city of Australia.
What is Canberra?
A subgenre of horror that is very graphic and focuses on brutal violence and bloody death.
What is splatter?
In fiction, this term describes when something is done or happens which makes it impossible to return to an earlier place or state.
What is point of no return?
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person; often used by, e.g., politicians to create intimacy.
What is an anecdote?
The number of the sonnet that is arguably Shakespeare's most popular and which we read together in class.
What is 18?
What is 666, or the redback spider (a.k.a. The Black Widow)?
A horror film, especially one depicting a series of violent murders or assaults by an attacker armed with a knife or razor.
What is a slasher movie?
The opposite of a protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
The repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
What is anaphora?
Humorous content in a dramatic or literary work that is intended to offset more serious episodes.
What is comic relief?
The Prime Minister who offered a formal apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples, particularly the Stolen Generations, on behalf of the nation at Australian Parliament House
Who is Kevin Rudd?
A style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion.
What is Gothic fiction?
A point of view which uses the pronoun “you” to address the reader. This narrative voice implies that the reader is either the protagonist or a character in the story and the events are happening to them
What is a second-person narrator?
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is iambic pentameter?
The date when Australia was founded.
January 1st, 1901.
A blanket term for fiction in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements.
What is speculative fiction?
The three different types of third-person narrator.
What is objective, limited, and omniscient?
A rhetorical term for a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a tricolon?
A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.
What is hamartia?