definitions
A literary device where an author uses descriptions of the five senses.
what is imagery?
The structure of The Yield
What is a multi-voiced/polyphonic narrative?
A symbol for spiritual presence and connection to Country.
What is the brolga?
The perspective August's passages are written in.
What is third person perspective?
"You should taste the blood in your words"
What is a springboard for colonisation or language?
A literary device where a rhetorical device where the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next
What is anadiplosis?
The person who takes the dictionary
Who is Aunt Nikki?
A symbol for historical preservation, cultural survival and resistance.
What is Albert's Dictionary?
The perspective Albert's passages are written in?
What is first person perspective?
"it's the things you give to, the movement, the space between things."
What is a springboard for perspective, relationship to country?
A literary device where coordinating conjunctions (such as and, or, but, or for) are intentionally left out from a series of related words, phrases, or clauses
What is asyndeton?
The name of August's family
What is Gondiwindi?
A symbol for emotional neglect and lingering trauma.
What is August's hunger
The form Albert's passages are written in.
What is dictionary entries?
"the spirits are urging me to remember"
What is a springboard for ancestry, culture and relationship to time?
A literary device where there are extra conjunctions repeatedly between every item in a list.
What is polysyndeton?
The name of the language that Albert writes in.
What is Wiradjuri?
A symbol for both exploitation/generational trauma, and healing/restoration.
What is the Murrumby River (and water)?
The form Greenleaf's passages are written in.
What are epistolary passages (letters)?
"the church brought time to us, and the church, if you let it, will take it away."
What is a springboard for religion and colonisation?
The organisation Greenleaf is writing to
what is The British Society of Ethnography?
The name of the house.
What is Prosperous House?
A symbol of both colonial violence and renewal.
What is fire?
The form of Greenleaf's final passage
What is an obituary?
"Her memory had been good enough to bury the bad thoughts, although reliable enough that the good were sometimes suppressed too. "
what is a springboard for memory and grief?