What is alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words
What do bush ballads or poems talk about?
They depict the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush
What is Rhyme?
The repetition of ending sounds in two or more words
What is colloquial language?
every day, informal language
Bang! ouuch!
onomatopoeia
What is onomatopoeia?
A sound word that imitates or suggests the sound it describes
What does ‘idiomatically Australian’ mean?
A phrase, saying or expression typically Australian
What is assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words
True or False?
Aboriginal Australians had an oral literary tradition going back many thousands of years.
True
Name one famous poet studied in this unit
Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Banjo Paterson, Dorothea Mckellar.
What is sibiliance?
The repetition of hissing or sibilant sounds like 's, sh, ch, z and f'
Example: 'She sells seashells by the seashore'
What is the name given to 14 lined poems?
Shakespeare wrote many examples of these 14 lined poems.
Sonnets
True or False?
Common themes in Indigenous authors' textsw are pride in Aboriginal culture, pain and anger at the loss of family or land, and a sense of dispossession
True
What is imagery?
Using descriptive language to create an image in the readers mind.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Simile