shafana and aunt sarrinah

Question 1

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“we still don’t know half of what’s in the deep deep ocean because they’re veiled with darkness” –> opening monologue

Question 2

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“for me it was as if a switch had been lit … illuminating our world” –> simile

Question 3

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“[put a jar before shafana]… they look really shrivelled” –> symbolism

Question 4

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“I was suffocating… [as] my lungs involuntarily sucked down wads of cotton” –> violant imagery/emotive language

Question 5

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“who weekly” –> intertextuality

Question 6

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“i am sarrinah obaidullah, afghani migrant and nobody” –> metaphor

Question 7

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“it wasn’t until i started investigating islam, after 2001, that i realised i wasn’t satisfied at the deepest level” –> allusion

Question 8

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“carved into the bones of [her] feet and horror tattooed into the base of [her] skull” –> violant imagery/allusion

Question 9

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“an Australian citizen [means] I do not have to ask to be tolerated [but rather] welcomed. Celebrated” –> first person perspective