Australian values and attitudes

Question 1

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Answer 1

The attitude that conquest is imperative for survival

Question 2

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Answer 2

The value of natural beauty is subverted

Question 3

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Answer 3

The value of masculine traits within colonial australia is endorsed

Question 4

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Answer 4

“she rode nineteen miles for assistance, carrying the dead child.” - emotional language and anecdote
“lifts the mangled reptile and carries it to the fire” - grotesque imagery and symbolism
“she made bullets and fired at him through cracks in the slabs with an old shot-gun” -symbolism and anecdote

Question 5

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Answer 5

“consists of stunted, rotten native” - pessimistic diction and grotesque imagery
“Almost waterless creek” -pessimistic diction and symbolism
“bush all around, bush with no horizon” - symbolism

Question 6

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Answer 6

“she carries several armfuls of firewood into the kitchen” - imagery
“she put on her husbands trousers, and beat out the flames” - imagery and symbolism
“grip of iron” -hyperbole and metaphor