Mod A quotes Flashcards
kin and family/trauma
a stretched lipless grimace that breathes
personification/imagery
presents the house as alive and witholding iinformation of the family’s past. The house grimacing to reflect the suppressed emotions hidden away. [Key]
kin and family/country
the loan tree on the ridge
is that my father?
rhetorical question/symbolism/personification
The subject is questioning her intentions and wondering what will come of their relationship. [Leaves]
kin and family
beach sand burn sher skin, she enjoys the sensation heat is the love of the campfire
symbolism
Illustrates how the woman can only feel extreme sensations due to the loss of her partner. conveying the pain of loss and the sensation of the subject’s world in the paradoxical nature of pain in order to heal. [Trance]
country
there time is spares like a dying tree
recurring motif/simile
The tree is often referred to throughout ACE poems and using the natural landscape is a reflection of the connection between culture and country. [Key]
country
stirred by wind in its flaming limbs
imagery/personification
Creates a powerful image of pride alluding to a Phoenix out of flames in the battle to fight the separation and distance from their culture. [Unearth]
country
distance i know that grass plains sway to sweep
alliteration/enjambment
A line that runs into another to represent her feelings of displacement revealing the emotions many might feel in relation to disconnection to culture it also avoids formal poetic structure. [Leaves]
injustice
“there is blood on the truth”
Diction / Imagery
Create a powerful image an incentive to uncover the history which has been twisted. [Unearth]
injustice/trauma
the eyes of terror
the eyes of submission
anaphora/high modality
Emphasises the choice she makes to be the world and the challenges aboriginal women in particular experience. [Eyes]
injustice
echoes of laughter roll like distant thunder
simile/auditory imagery/pathetic fallacy
Creates a scene of the past life that flourished which was unjustly irradiated with the voices of the people who once experienced joy in the town are now just echoes in the distance. Pathetic fallacy is used to present the mood of the Oombulgarri people and the tone of the poem. [Oombulgarri]
country
the yellow kiss of sun
personification
Reveals the inextricable connection between the Aboriginal peoples and the land. [Trance]
trauma
tumble weeds of blue patterned dresses
- Visual Imagery / Metaphor / Metonym
Connotates to the vibrant patterned clothing Aboriginal women often wear and the removal of said women form the town they lived in. This creates a powerful opening image of what has occurred informing the reader on the nature of the poem and its recollection of the events. [Oombulagrri]
loss
boomerangs will rattle in unison
boomerang bones
- Alliteration / Plosive Sound / Repetition / Symbolism
Creates rhythm and replicates the sounds of boomerangs banging together. Forming a voice for the Aboriginal peoples through a war cry sensory image formed by the unjust treatment which has been endured by each generation. [Unearth]
loss
echoes o
