Hunt for the Wilderpeople
This main protagonist is a rebellious foster youth who loves hip-hop, dogs, and writing short Japanese poems.
Who is Ricky Baker?
The camera angle used when filming Paula from below to make her appear powerful, dominant, and threatening.
What is a low camera angle?
A word part added to the end of a base word—such as -ful or -less—that alters its meaning or changes its word class.
What is a suffix?
The structure of a paragraph that we use.
What is PEEL?
A comparison of two unlike things using the connector words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
Ricky names his beloved dog after this legendary 1990s West Coast rapper.
What is Tupac?
Director Taika Waititi uses this extreme camera framing to emphasize how small, isolated, and vulnerable Ricky and Hec are against the vast New Zealand landscape.
What is an extreme long shot / wide shot?
The writer’s attitude toward their subject or audience, expressed through word choice (e.g., sarcastic, urgent, lighthearted, formal).
What is tone?
A sentence made up of one independent clause and at least one dependent clause connected by a subordinating conjunction.
What is a complex sentence?
Giving human characteristics, feelings, or actions to non-human objects or elements of nature (e.g., "The bush swallowed them whole").
What is personification?
The overzealous Child Youth and Family (CYFS) officer who relentlessly hunts Ricky and Hec through the bush, adopting the motto "No child left behind."
Who is Paula?
Sound that exists within the world of the film that characters can hear, such as Aunt Bella playing the piano or branches snapping in the bush.
What is diegetic sound?
The main point, central topic, or core claim that an entire paragraph or article revolves around.
What is main idea?
Punctuation used to introduce a list, an explanation, or a formal quotation.
What is a colon (: )?
The deliberate repetition of initial consonant sounds in close proximity (e.g., "Ricky ran relentlessly").
What is alliteration?
The poetic form consisting of 5, 7, and 5 syllables that Ricky uses throughout the film to express his emotions and cope with loss.
What is a haiku?
The visual technique of placing two contrasting things side-by-side, such as Ricky wearing bright, urban streetwear inside the rugged natural bush.
What is juxtaposition?
Specialized vocabulary specific to a particular topic or field—such as biodiversity in science or inflation in economics—that readers must decode to understand non-fiction texts.
What is jargon?
Linking words such as however, consequently, furthermore, and in contrast that guide a reader smoothly from one idea to the next.
What are signposts/transitions/conjunctions?
Deliberate and extreme exaggeration used to emphasize a point or create humor, not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
Beyond physical survival, this central theme is highlighted as both Ricky and Hec transform from unwanted outcasts into a true unit.
What is family / belonging / connection?
The French term referring to everything deliberately placed within the camera frame—including set design, props, costumes, and actor positioning—such as contrasting Ricky’s bright urban streetwear with Uncle Hec’s worn hunting gear to visually communicate their clashing worlds.
What is mise-en-scène?
The primary reason an author creates a text—typically categorized as to inform, persuade, entertain, or instruct.
What is writer's purpose?
Identify and correct the grammatical error in this sentence: "Ricky runned through the trees because he heard the siren."
What is changing "runned" to "ran"?
Words carefully chosen by an author to deliberately stir up specific feelings or emotional responses in the reader.
What is emotive language?