Form, Structure, and Language (HSC SSCE English Standard): Flashcards

Brief, impressionistic scene or episode

Land as a living entity

Coming-of-age story format

Fragmented, nonlinear, mirrors river's natural rhythms

Natural elements possess their own agency and will

Personification of timber; animist ontology in prose

Each iteration becomes humbler and less triumphant

Tasmanian masculinity: emotional restraint and silence

Indigenous name for the river

Structure enacts river's movement; performs ecological time