Geraldine Brooks - Para 2

Question 1

what does she highlight?

Answer 1

Furthermore, Brooks highlights her passion for language and literature, which has led her to having “A Home in Fiction”.

Question 2

The use of extended metaphor of the swimming ?

Answer 2

“in a sea of words” exemplify her love of language, where she refers to the richness of language by metaphorically stating that it sings “with its own particular music”.

Question 3

what is expressed in the repetition of “I know it has the power…the power of fiction, the power of words”.

Answer 3

The potential for language to create change and betterment of humanity

Question 4

Brooks appeals to the logos and ethos through her ?

Answer 4

simile and allusion to Austrian author Ernst Gombrich’s analogy that writing about the past is “like lighting a scrap of paper and dropping it into a bottomless well”.

Question 5

She uses the light imagery to symbolise ?

Answer 5

that literature has the power connect us to others across time, to discover ourselves in the thoughts, feelings and experiences of others.

Question 6

The lecture begins and ends with ?

Answer 6

the mathematics analogy to reinforce the idea that we are all essentially on the same quest, “For a more perfect description of the world’s swoops and curves”.

Question 7

She metaphorically concludes that ?

Answer 7

while the “furniture” of the time will change, “the emotions of the people in the room will not change” using pathos to appeal to the audience.

Question 8

Brooks reveals that writing and literature are?

Answer 8

a valuable means of accessing this universal “consciousness”/human nature and holds power to influence others.