book review essay Flashcards
1
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Title, author and text type
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“Stan Grant’s nostalgia for injustice”, Jeremy Sammut, book review
2
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topic sentence
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Shortcomings of truth due to personal experience and emotions
3
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“Lived experience”
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inverted commas create bitter, mocking tone which negates Grants opinion bu siggesting he is living in the past with other’s experiences
4
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“Would-be victim”
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prejorative description creates mocking tone to cast judgement on grant victimising himself to racial inequality and discrimination
5
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“Underwhelming… interpretation… dead end… claims… distortions… overlooking”
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littering negative descriptors to create a lexical chain of negative judgement on grant.
6
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by discrediting grants truth
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presenting his own; that indigenous inequality has been sensationalised
