Literary
Devices
Devices
What is the name of the literary device that uses the same sound at the start of a word for two or more words in a line?
What is Alliteration
What do First Nations people in Australiia call the land, the animals, and all living things?
What is Country
An Aboriginal Australian poet, activist, veteran, environmentalist and educator from the Noonuccal clan of the Quandamooka people of Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island).
Who is Oodgeroo Noonuccal?
What do the following letters stand for in TEAEAV?
T E A V
What is Topic, Evidence, Analysis, Viewpoint/Values
An quality or ability which a person is born with.
What is innate?
Identify the literary device in the following phrase:
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
What is Repetition
Name one disease that had a huge impact on First Nations people after European colonisation.
What is smallpox, influenza, or measles.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was formerly known by which name?
Who is Kath Walker?
Elements included in a full topic sentence?
(Name at least 3)
What is Title, Author, Appositive, Verb, Main Topic.
To deprive someone of property, land, or possessions, often by force or legal authority.
What is dispossession?
Identify the literary device in the following phrase:
"My skin is a flag."
What is Metaphor
The term the British used to lie to England and say that Australia was unoccupied land.
What is Terra Nullius
A Gija/Bardi woman from Western Australia, known for her impactful poetry that addresses the experiences and struggles of Aboriginal people.
Who is Nola Gregory?
Elements included in an evidence sentence
(Name at least 3)
What is when, who, what, and "quote".
To destroy or remove something so that it cannot be seen any more
What is efface?
"My grandfather was the bush, the coast, salmon gums, hakeas, blue-grey banksias..."
What literary device is used here?
What is Catalogue
Famous ______________ include the journey of the Rainbow Serpent, which links waterholes from Arnhem Land to Western Australia, and the Seven Sisters story, which maps the sisters’ flight across the land and sky, teaching lessons about water sources and social behaviour.
What is Songlines
Name of poem that won the Queensland Poetry Emerging Older Poets competition.
What is "I Will Never Be Silent".
Elements included in an analysis sentence
(Name at least 3)
What is literary device, author, verb, analysis, link to topic.
The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the Indigenous people of an area.
What is Colonisation?
Pop! Bang! Whizz! Sizzle
All these words are examples of which literary device?
What is Onomatopoeia
The practice of removing children from First Nations families and placing them in white families so that indigenous people would 'learn to be white'.
What is Assimilation
The author wrote:
"A dying race, you linger on, degraded and oppressed.
Outcasts in your native land, you are the dispossessed."
Who is Oodgeroo Noonuccal?
The main difference in structure for poetry and prose.
What is Poetry has lines and stanzas, prose has sentences and paragraphs.
The company’s strict rules about employee health choices were criticised as an unnecessary act of _____________________.
What is paternalism?