Visual Features
Using an object to represent another object, idea or quality.
Symbol
What does the cover page suggest about the narrative?
It will be a story about colonisation.
A language feature which compares two things using 'like' and 'as'
Similes.
List two visual features that the illustrator has used to position the Rabbits in a negative light?
Any of these: colour, shape, placement, objects and symbols.
What is an allegory?
An allegory is a narrative that has a second meaning hidden behind its literal meaning.
The positioning of objects, animals or humans in texts.
Placement.
What do the red coats, flags and ship symbolise?
British colonisers
What is the literary technique where consonant sounds are repeated?
Alliteration.
Colour
Any of these options:
rabbits- severe angular and brightly coloured)
Numbats- earthy colours, rounded.
Symbolism.
Give two reasons why the composer may have chosen rabbits to represent the British settlers.
Any two of: They are introduced species, they are pests, they breed and spread across the landscape very quickly.
Describe how two visual techniques are used to highlight the negative impacts that the rabbits’ arrival had on the numbats.
Two techniques of your choice plus explanation.
A comparison between two things; it makes a much stronger comparison by describing one this is another.
Metaphor.
What is the final line of the book, and what impact does it have?
“Who will save us from the rabbits?”. This is a rhetorical question which leaves the reader thinking about the impact of settlement on the numbats, and emphasises that they have been left helpless and powerless to save themselves.