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What is the significance of the title 'Homecoming'. What technique is it?
The title is ironic as a homecoming is usually a joyous celebration, instead this homecoming brings grief.
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What technique is this - "You're dead, dead, dead"?
Repetition
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Name the technique in the line: "because of your position your chance of turning the key in the ignition"
Euphemism
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What technique is it when you asked question without wanting a reply?
Rhetorical question
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"All day, day after day, they're bringing them home" - what technique is used in this line?
Repetition
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In what year did our poet pass away?
2020
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Fill in the missing word: "blue curve of the Pacific with ________ quick fingers"
Sorrowful
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In 'Homecoming' how does Dawe emphasise the large number of soldiers who died? MUST QUOTE
Through the imagery of the bodies "piled on the hulls of Grants, in trucks, in convoys"
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Which war are these poems about?
The Vietnam War.
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Name the term for the definition. Comparing two objects using the words 'like' or 'as'.
Simile
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"piled on the hulls of Grants, in trucks, in convoys" - what technique is used in this line?
Imagery
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Name the technique. What is it called when you use a series of commas to intentionally slow the flow of writing.
Caesura
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'Weapons Training' can be described as a _________ monologue. Fill in the blank.
A dramatic monologue
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Name one rhetorical question used in 'Weapons Training'.
Variety of answers.
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What connotations do we associate with the word 'home'?
Safety, belonging, family, comfort.
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In 'Homecoming', what is the technique called when the same word is repeated at the start of consecutive lines?
Anaphora
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Identify the mistakes in the sentence: bruce dawe's poem homecoming is about war.
Bruce Dawe's poem 'Homecoming' is about war.
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What does the "sterile housing" represent?
The dead soldiers coffins.
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What technique is this? "the coasts swing upwards, the old ridiculous curvatures of earth, the knuckled hills"
Imagery
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Fill in the blank: "_______ tremble like _________ from a ___________"
"telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree"
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Bruce Dawe is affectionately labelled 'the poet of ......'
Suburbia
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What technique is used in the line "tripes are round your neck"?
Imagery
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Unscramble this key word: I T Y TU F L I
Futility
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Name the technique for the definition: words that are spelled the way they sound.
Onomatopoeia
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What is the impact of the "mute salute" given to the returned soldiers in 'Homecoming'?
Emphasises how there is no celebration/acknowledgement of their sacrifice for their country.
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Provide a definition of 'personification'.
The attribution of human characteristics to something inhuman.
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Unscramble this key word: G N E M A I N I D S U H
Dehumanising
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Unscramble this key word: R T A L I Y T U B
Brutality
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What technique is this? "They're bringing them home, too late, too early"?
Paradox
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Unscramble these words: C U B R E W A E D
Bruce Dawe
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What is the word starting with 'd' that is used to describe the way the drill sergeants tirade of abuse?
Diatribe / dramatic monologue.
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Provide a definition for emotive language.
Emotive language is the term used to describe when certain words are used to evoke an emotional response.
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