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Purple Threads Ch 1 - 5
What is a motif?
Analogy
Purple Threads Ch 1 - 5
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Analogy
Saying one thing is another for effect
Referencing another text within the text
A way of describing something by comparing one thing to another
Saying one thing is like another for effect
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What is a motif?
Saying something is something else
A significant theme
A normal object that means something else
A recurring symbol
3
Who is Petal?
Another aunty of Sunny's
Sunny & Star's mum
Sunny's grandma
Sunny's older sister
4
The unseen questions will pertain to:
Structure
Character
Theme
Aesthetic feature
5
Which correctly characterises Aunty Bubby?
Beautiful, enjoys going out swears, "everyone's darling".
Middle-aged, "nobody's Christian", doesn't really like men
Married William
Reads English novels and would have gotten married.
6
What is the following: "A strip of Eden emerged from the hard unyielding land..."
Metaphor
Intertextual reference
Biblical reference
Christianity
7
Leane's choice to use the short story cycle is significant because...
Aallows Leane to write non-linear stories which connect the past and future
It enables the reader to see the pivotal moments in Sunny's lives
You can pick up the book in any given chapter and still understand the book
It represents fragmented yet interrelated history of Aboriginal people
8
Which is the correct selection and order of the apocalyptic trajectory?
Collapse, crisis, survival, adaptation
Pre-invasion, post-invasion, transformation
Crisis, collapse, survival, assimilation
Crisis, collapse, survival, transformation
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What is an invited reading?
How the characters are positioned in relation to key themes
How inviting and/or engaging the story is
How the author wants you to think about the story
How the reader is invited to understand something about the story
10
Where is Purple Threads primarily set?
Gundagai, NSW
Jericho, QLD
Emerald, QLD
Mullumbimby, NSW
11
Which of the following is a correct convention of analytical writing?
Present tense
Second person
Past tense
First tense
12
Which of these is NOT so important in Purple Threads?
Identity
Stolen Generation
City vs. country living
Country/land
13
What themes seem to be important in Purple Threads?
Belonging
Survival
Family
Identity
14
Which correctly characterises Aunty Boo?
Reads English novels and would have gotten married.
Married William
Middle-aged, "nobody's Christian", doesn't really like men
Beautiful, enjoys going out swears, "everyone's darling".
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Leane's choice to write stories within stories is significant because...
It represents traditonal Aboriginal oral storytelling
It allows Leane to write stories that interweave the past and present
It enables us to see perspectives of different characters.
It allows readers to read stories in isolation
16
Which of the following seem to be a motif in Purple Threads?
The dogs the Aunties and Nan save
Flowers; earth
Sheep
Eye dialect
17
Which of the following is a correct integration of a quote in analytical writing?
Nan says, "I never liked all that religious stuff."
Nan said, "I never liked all that religious stuff,"
Nan said: "I never liked all that religious stuff".
Nan says, "I never liked all that religious stuff".
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What is eye dialect?
Mis-spelling words so they are written how people actually say them
Mis-spelling words to represent that a character is under-educated
Using words in the Aboriginal vernacular like "gammon"
Writing about eyes
