Common Mod
True or false: The PTS section is 40mins writing time
False, it is 45mins writing time
"But he did come back. Not straight away, but in his own time."
truncated sentences
Spell both the director's name, and the 'I' word referring to Aboriginal Australians, correctly.
Rachel Perkins
Indigenous
Name all 6 poems
Journey the North Coast, Flames and Dangling Wire, Harbour Dusk, Byron Bay: Winter, Description of a walk, 24 poems
The 3 styles of writing that you could be asked to write are....
persuasive, imaginative, discursive
Define bildungsroman
A coming-of-age story
When responding to a short answer question, you should follow which structure?
PETAL (would accept PETA)
The fence line/gate is symbolic of what?
Barrier between cultures
European/colonial perception of land ownership
Provide an insight that 'Harbour Dusk' explores
nature as a reflection of human relationships
Provide 3 techniques that you could use in a persuasive response.
Rhetorical questions, high modality language, stats
"A slice of sunlight hit his face...A ray of light. The photo of Mum."
There are four techniques here. List two.
Visual imagery, symbolism, ellipsis, truncated sentences
Define 'paradox' and provide an example.
Need to say something along these lines:
"A paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement or concept that is actually true".
(Brownie points for explaining it in terms of Muz's broad beans)
What is the film's core message about? (a message which should be included in every essay)
Reconciliation
Name the 2 techniques here.
"Now the distant buildings are stencilled in the smoke."
Sibilance, Metaphor
Define what the 'discursive' style involves and provide 3 techniques that you could use in your response.
Rhetorical questions, personal anecdote, stats etc.
The type of narration of the novel is...
Limited omniscient narrator. (Brownie points if you also said unreliable)
Name the technique:
"Ultimately, this is why teens should not engage with technology for more than 4 hours per day."
High modality language
The film's plot is constructed in what structure?
Cyclical structure
Name 3 techniques / aspects of form in this extract;
"Next thing I wake-up in a swaying bunk
as if on board a clipper
clambering at sea,
and it's the train that booms and cracks,
it tears the wind apart."
in media res, first person perspective simile, enjambment, onomatopoeia / auditory imagery, hyperbole, alliteration
Provide 3 'gold level' (substantial) techniques that you could use in an imaginative piece.
symbolism, extended metaphor, cyclical structure etc.
Fix this point statement to include an insight.
"Memory is explored in Past the Shallows through the use of flashbacks."
Teacher to judge success of answer. Could include:
- the unreliable nature of memory, memory and emotion as a powerful force, impact of trauma on memory
The line in an image that one's eye follows when looking from one aspect to the next is referred to as ....
a vector
Reenact a scene from the film to an acceptable standard (judged by teacher)
Judged by teacher
Provide the following facts that should be in your introduction correctly:
- Gray is influenced by what movement? He is an .... poet.
- The title of his anthology (that we are studying) is called what?
- form of poetry (structure)
Imagist (Imagism)
'Coast Road'
Free form
As a group, write 2 interesting opening sentences using sensory imagery in response to the following setting prompt. You have 3 mins.
- Bondi beach on a rainy winter's day
(can't be cliche)
Needs to include sensory imagery. Not cliche