Common Module
What is the definition of tone?
What is the tone of Past The Shallows?
the general attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
heavy, sad, serious, sinister, solemn, somber, and threatening.
what technique is in "mum is the other bones - all of them. She keeps the family together."
and who said it?
metaphor
Dale
1)What is the name of a collection of poems
2) what was the name of Robert Gray's collection of poems?
ouvre
The Coast Road
what is metalanguage?
Metalanguage is simply the words used to describe the language choices authors have made, and the choices you have made about your own writing
What technique adds depth and relatability to inanimate objects?
personification
Identify 3 themes from Past The Shallows
Options: Brotherhood
Tragedy and Blame
Disfunction
Father Figures
Duality of Nature
what do working class people value most according to The Castle?
Traditons
-Attitudes
-family values
-value hardwork
What 2 techniques are in the quote "like fingers spread and dragged to smudge" from Flames and Dangling Wire?
imagery and a simile
who wrote the Pedestrian and in what year?
Ray Bradbury
1951
A repeated first constant sound in 2 or more successive words.
alliteration
what technique is in the quote:
"Out past the shallows, past the sandy-bottomed bays comes the dark water - black and cold and roaring"
metaphor
Name 3 different groups or cultures represented by the film?
Airlink
The Government
Lawyers
The Kerrigan family
Working class Australians
Upper middle class Australians
Women
Migrants
-Gender roles
-norms
-insitutions
-beliefs
-Traditons
-Attitudes
-family values
-value hardwork
-working class
What technique is it when you reference another text or painting? and name one of the poems that includes this feature
Textual Allusion
Byron Bay Winter
Flames and Dangling Wire
Journey the North Coast
what are the 5 types of imagery (proper terms) and the effect on the reader
visual, aural, olfactory, gustatory, tactile
immerse the reader in the setting
what is the effect of enjambment?
to create a flow feel/sound to the line
What technique is in the quote: "Today the bluff was like liquid mercury... the ocean was at peace"
and who said it?
personification
Miles
What is the literary technique in: "Location, location, location." While the camera pans from the family home to the airport next door
is ironic as the home is in an undesirable location, which establishes Dale as intellectually simple.
what kind of poem is Journey North Coast?
extended free verse
name 3 themes from The Pedestrian
nonconformity
nature vs technology
dehumanisation
life without freedom
isolation from society
The opposite happens from what would normally be expected. Ex: A fire station burns down.
irony
what does the ocean symbolise about the familial relationships?
that they are broken and unpredictable
what are 4 synonyms for language?
What are 4 synonyms for working class?
vernacular, dialogue, dialect, vocabulary, jargon, articulates, voice
blue collar, common, proletariat, grassroots workers, labouring class
what is a lexical chain and which poem is one found in?
lexical chain is a sequence of related words in writing,
Byron Bay Winter
name 5 SPECIFIC techniques featured in The Pedestrian
Extended metaphor, light symbolism, truncated sentences, flawy sentences, irony, simile, olfactory imagery
a reference to a biblical, mythological, literary or historical figure or citation. Ex: He conducts his class like hitler.
allusion