Societal
Rhetorical Devices
Literary Devices
English Textual Concepts
Powerful Voices
100

Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour

What is moral?

100

An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning

What is connotation?

100

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

What is symbolism?

100

An idea that recurs in or pervades a text

What is theme?

100

A 1987 song by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil

What is "Beds are Burning"?

200

Relating to beliefs about what is morally right and wrong

What is ethical?

200

A comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification

What is analogy?

200

Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words

What is rhyme?

200

A word or images which signifies more than what it denotes and makes meaning beyond its literal sense

What is connotation?

200

Leader of the Opposition addressed in Prime Minister Julia Gillard's 2012 "Misogyny Speech"

Who is Tony Abbott?

300

The organisation of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation, without political institutions or hierarchical government

What is anarchy?

300

An appeal to an audience or reader's sense of reason

What is logos?

300

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

What is alliteration?

300

The role of the composer and responder and the degree to which these are privileged in making meaning

What is authority?

300

Song about the broken promise of a treaty between the Australian government and Indigenous Australians

What is "Treaty"?

400

Implicit rules that govern one's reactions and beliefs in a way that is deemed acceptable by society

What are social expectations?

400

An appeal to an audience or reader's emotions

What is pathos?

400

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

What is anaphora?

400

A lens through which we learn to see the world; it shapes what we see and the way we see it

What is perspective?

400

A common phrase used to excuse the behaviour of young men: "Boys will be ____"

What is boys?

500

An ethical framework in which an individual is obligated to work and cooperate with other individuals and organisations

What is social obligation?

500

An appeal to an audience or reader's ethics

What is ethos?

500

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly

What is allusion?

500

Factors acting upon composers and responders that impinge on meaning

What is context?
500

Location of Prime Minister Paul Keating's 1992 speech addressing dispossession and violence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

What is Redfern?

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