Distinctively Visual

Question 1

Distinctively visual elements are conveyed through:

Answer 1

• context
• audience
• form
• imagery
• symbolism
• language

Question 2

In a Dry Season

Answer 2

Henry Lawson

Question 3

What does the distinctively visual mean

Answer 3

How the composer uses their texts to demonstrate the conventions of textal forms, language modes and media shape meaning

Question 3

Instruction

Answer 3

“Draw a wire fence and a few ragged gums, and add some scattered sheep running away from the train. Then you’ll have the bush all along the New South Wales western line from Bathurst on” - makes the audience imagine / relate to the story

Question 4

Plural

Answer 4

“The railway towns consist of a public house and a general store, with a square tank and a school-house on piles in the nearer distance” - demonstrates how all of the towns are similar, uniform, same, monotony

Question 5

Sarcasm / irony

Answer 5

“The only town I saw that differed much from the above consisted of a box-bark humpy with a clay chimney, and a woman standing at the door throwing out the wash-up water” - not really a town

Question 5

Dark humour

Answer 5

“Death is about the only cheerful thing in the bush” - bush is so harsh and boring

Question 6

Symbolism

Answer 6

“I thought he was mad, and was about to attack the train, but he wasn’t; he was only killing a snake” - snake is a symbol of evil

Question 6

Humour / unexpected paradox

Answer 6

“The least horrible spot in the bush, in a dry season, is where the bush isn’t” - implies the bush is all horrible

Question 7

The Drovers Wife

Answer 7

Henry Lawson

Question 7

Vernacular (everyday language, conversation language)

Answer 7

“Yer wanter go out back, young man, if yer wanter see the country. Yer wanter get away from the line” - emphasises the stereotypical view of people in the bush

Question 11

The Loaded Dog

Answer 11

Henry Lawson

Question 12

Simplistic comedy

Answer 12

“Dave got an idea” - leads to curiosity, possibility, entices the reader to read on, set apart from the paragraphs and makes you want to read it - draws you in - distinctively visual in the way that it is set out

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

“Big enough to blow the bottom out of the river” - image of how extreme/dangerous it was

Question 14

Extended metaphor

Answer 14

“Big black young retriever dog or rather an overgrown pup” “tail that swung around like a stock-whip” - image of a cute, innocent dog that could do no wrong and this dog is extremely strong

Question 14

Repetition

Answer 14

“Four footed mate” “two-legged mate” - emphasises how close these mates were with the dog and again gives the innocent appearance as nothing is going to happen between these mates

Question 15

Migrant Hostel

Answer 15

Peter Skrzynecki

Question 15

Alliteration

Answer 15

“Sniff suspiciously in the sickly smothering atmosphere of the summer sunrise” - not a coincidence, small slides into the camp, mimicking through sound

Question 16

What is it about?

Answer 16

• tells us how they lived when they first came to Australia
• first place they stayed in Australia
• didn’t really feel welcome
• started doubting if they would ever be able to make a life for themselves

Question 17

Sentence fragment

Answer 17

“And bolted” - use of action words builds tension and again creates mystery as you try to figure out why he bolted

Question 18

Hyperbole

Answer 18

“Comings and goings” - emphasises how people kept coming and leaving that people may not have even noticed that they were there and then they were gone

Question 19

Onomatopoeia

Answer 19

“Hissing and spitting properly” - gets you to visualise/ emphasise the loud, frightening sound of the cartridge

Question 20

Connotation

Answer 20

“Sudden departures” - wasn’t planned for and it was very uncertain and out of their control

Question 21

Sentence length and symbolism

Answer 21

“They could never explain any more than the dog, why they followed each other, but so they ran, Dave keeping in Jim’s track in all its turnings, Andy after Dave and the dog circling round Andy - the live fuse swishing in all directions and hissing and spluttering and stinking” - the length of the sentence symbolises how long they were running for and how they didn’t stop

Question 22

Alliteration

Answer 22

“By memories of hunger and hate” - the h sound is harsh and evokes the harshness of wartime experiences and prejudices

Question 23

Simile

Answer 23

“Jim swung to a sapling and went up like a native bear” - shows how fast and easily he managed to escape from Tommy, at least for a little while

Question 24

Simile 1

Answer 24

“Nationalities sought each other out like a homing pigeon” - shows us that people were so desperate to find some kind of belonging so they would stay with people of the same nationality with hope that they may have similar stories

Question 25

Personification and hyperbole

Answer 25

“Bushmen say that the kitchen jumped off its piles and on again” - exaggerates / demonstrates just how powerful the cartridge really was

Question 26

Sensoral imagery

Answer 26

“Barrier at the main gate” - physical barrier that prevents migrants from having their own lives in Australia

Question 28

Simile 2

Answer 28

“Rise and fell like a finger” - reinforces the image of the barrier rising and falling to let certain people through

Question 30

Simile 3

Answer 30

“We lived like birds of passage” - suggests that he is stuck in a situation out of their control - birds travelling towards a destination - no sense of belonging in a state of transition - recurrence of birds in the poem creates a motif