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Sound Devices
Mix
Elements of Poetry
Figures of Speech
Identify the technique
100

What is alliteration?

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words

100

What do bush ballads or poems talk about?

They depict the life, character and scenery of the Australian bush

100
A group of lines in a poem.
Verse or stanza
100
A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using like or as
What is simile
100
Peter Piper picked a peck
alliteration
200

What is Rhyme?

The repetition of ending sounds in two or more words

200

What is colloquial language?

every day, informal language

200
The atmosphere created by an author in a literary work
What is mood
200
A technique where an inanimate object is given human qualities
What is personification
200

Bang! ouuch!


onomatopoeia

300

What is onomatopoeia?

A sound word that imitates or suggests the sound it describes

300

What does ‘idiomatically Australian’ mean?

A phrase, saying or expression typically Australian

300
A reflection of the writer's attitude in a written work
What is tone
300
An exaggeration for humor or emphasis
What is hyperbole
300
He took off like a bullet from a gun.
Simile
400

What is assonance?

The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words

400

True or False? 

Aboriginal Australians had an oral literary tradition going back many thousands of years.

True

400

Name one famous poet studied in this unit

Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Banjo Paterson, Dorothea Mckellar.

400
A comparison of two or more unlike things that have something in common
What is metaphor
400
She cried rivers of tears.
Hyperbole
500

What is sibiliance?

The repetition of hissing or sibilant sounds like 's, sh, ch, z and f' 

Example: 'She sells seashells by the seashore'

500

What is the name given to 14 lined poems?

Shakespeare wrote many examples of these 14 lined poems.

Sonnets

500

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

500

What is imagery?

Using descriptive language to create an image in the readers mind.

500

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Simile