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The social practices and ways of thinking of a particular people or group, including shared beliefs, values, knowledge, customs, lifestyles, and artefacts is the definition of...
What is 'culture'?
The language technique used in "her neck tilts like a sunflower too heavy to meet the sky" is...
What is a 'simile'?
The poem that includes the phrase "And they, the professors, rightly, lost a genius in me with their English and my Anguish" is...
What is 'New Accents'?
In Maureen Ten's 'Translucent Jade', she uses visual and auditory imagery to portray the joy of reconnecting with her cultural identity. From the options of "affirm", "challenge", or "reveal", Ten's purpose in responding to the prevailing assumption that knowing our heritage best fits...
What is 'affirm'?
The word used to refer to an individual's native country, such as Malaysia for Maureen Ten or Vietnam for Vuong Pham's mother.
What is 'homeland'?
The name of our prescribed text is...
What is 'Contemporary Asian-Australian Poets'?
The language technique used in "the one dark warm lush hum" is...
What is 'auditory imagery'?
The poem that includes the phrase "the mulberry tree, that foreigner so completely at home, growing taller each year" is?
What is 'Home'?
In Jaya Savige's 'Circular Breathing', he juxtaposes the history and symbols of Ancient Rome with the history and practices of Aboriginal Australians. From the options of "affirm", "disrupt", or "ignore", Savige's purpose in responding to the prevailing assumption that European cultures are older with a longer legacy best fits...
What is 'disrupt'?
Merlinda Bobis speaks and includes three languages in her poem: Bikol, Pilipino, and English. The word given to describe someone who can do this is...
What is 'trilingual'?
The term given to the poet's representation/inclusion of themselves in their poem, especially through their use of personal pronouns or inclusive language, is...
What is 'persona'?
The language technique where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of multiple sentences, such as "It will" or "No"?
What is 'anaphora'?
The poem that includes the repeated phrase "I am six years old, perhaps five" is...
What is 'This is where it begins'?
In Miriam Wei Wei Lo's 'Home', she uses the metaphor of foreign plants thriving in new soil. From the options of "ignore", "reveal", or "challenge", Lo's purpose in responding to the prevailing assumption that immigrants struggle to adapt best fits...
What is 'challenge'?
Maureen Ten and Ouyang Yu both speak about having to change in order to fit in with their new countries and cultures. What word refers to needing to change to become like the dominant group/culture of a place?
What is 'assimilation'?
Our prescribed text was published in this year.
What is '2013'?
The language technique that repeatedly uses a 's' or 'sh' sound, such as in "Storytelling, all our eyes collect into singular seeing, our lips test one note" is...
What is 'sibilance'?
The poem that includes the phrase "It was a little strange, as if from a world I hadn't inhabited but had heard stories about" is...
What is 'Translucent Jade'?
In Merlinda Bobis' 'This is where it begins', she repeatedly reflects on the stories she was told growing up. From the options of "ignore", "reveal", or "challenge", Bobis' purpose in responding to the prevailing assumption that all humans, regardless of differences in culture, are connected by imagination best fits...
What is 'reveal'?
Poets such as Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Ouyang Yu, and Vuong Pham all write about the movement and spread of peoples from their original homeland to new spaces. The term given to describe this is...
What is 'diaspora'?
Name at least four poems that must have been studied from this prescribed text.
What is 'This is where it begins', 'Home', 'New Accents', 'Translucent Jade', 'Circular Breathing' or 'Mother'?
The language technique where words/phrases are deliberately misspelled to demonstrate how people who speak English as a second language can struggle with verbal pronunciation, such as "crime-mi-nal" or "Neechosen Street".
What is 'solecism'?
The poem that includes the phrase "A drone as deep as yet unexcavated ruins, far older than even the Forum" is...
What is 'Circular Breathing'?
In Vuong Pham's 'Mother', he uses a metaphor to portray his mother's wish that he be able to speak unbroken English in Australia. From the options of "affirm", "disrupt", or "challenge", Pham's purpose in responding to the prevailing assumption of refugees having weak literacy/English capabilities best fits..
What is 'disrupt'?
The phrase used to describe the disruption or loss of an individual's cultural identity, heritage, and/or traditions due to a removal from their environment or exposure to a significantly different culture.
What is 'cultural displacement'?