Smoke Encrypted Whispers Flashcards
magnesium girl
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
2)
- Reminiscing (muse/inspiration)
3)
- Imagery (passionate/sultry)
- Onomatopoeia
4)
- Love (steamy affair) (duality of love = painful ecstasy)
- Segregation of Aboriginals (forbidden love between black man and white woman)
on the river
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
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3)
4)
waiting for the good man
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Theme
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
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3)
4)
white stucco dreaming
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
2)
- Reminiscing (childhood)
3)
- ‘Black’ motif (symbolises culture)
4)
- Segregation of Aboriginals (grouped within culture)
- Love (fondness of childhood)
jetty nights
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
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2)
3)
4)
a verse for the cheated
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
- Spaces between several lines = shows randomness of attacks
2)
- Condemnatory = tourists destructive to environment
3)
- Irony = area not as idealistic as advertised
- Personification = highway described as beast
4)
- Destruction of Industrialisation
the gloom swans
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
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3)
4)
labelled
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
2)
- Sarcastic = subverts idea of being a horse
3)
- Juxtaposition = playful tone of being a horse is abolished by reveal that he is aboriginal
4)
- Marginalisation of Aboriginals
- Assimilation of Aboriginals
for the wake and skeleton dance
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
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3)
4)
cheap white-goods at the dreamtime sale
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
- 1 entire stanza = rant
2)
- Condemnatory/accusing = culture being commercialised
- Sardonic/facetious = culture has been devalued
3)
- Juxtaposition = comparison of industry and divinity
- Alliteration = explosive
4)
- Appropriation of Aboriginals
- Destruction of Industrialisation
- Destruction of Colonisation
poem 9
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
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3)
4)
hotel bone
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
- Lines are skewed = represents hotel bone
- Last lines pushed to side = marginalised pushed to boundaries
2)
- Sarcasm = Aboriginals only became citizens in 1967 referendum + One Nation described as terrorists
- Spiteful = society divided in an ‘airline format’ by classes
3)
- Personification = street described as guitar
4)
- Marginalisation of Aboriginals
we’re not truckin’ around
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
2)
- Accusatory = effects of Colonisation
3)
- Analogy = ‘knocked phone off hook’ (taking away culture)/ ‘18 wheeler lifestyle’ (industrialised life)
4)
- Destruction of Colonisation
- Destruction of Aboriginal culture
night racing
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
2)
- Defiant = rebelling against invaders
3)
- Personification = ‘heartbeat’ of land
- Irony = ‘settler’s sacred sites’ Europeans not original custodians
- Alliteration = ‘settler’s sacred sites’
4)
- Destruction of Colonisation
- Destruction of Aboriginal culture
- Appropriation of Aboriginal culture
deo optimo maximo
1) Structure
2) Tone
3) Techniques
4) Themes
1) Prose
2)
- Ironic = describes road as being god-like
3)
- Simile = ‘like black smiles’
- Personification = ‘like black smiles and frowns’
- Religious imagery = industrialisation seen as white religion
4)
- Destruction of Colonisation
- Degredation of environment
