Narrative Voice and Perspective (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Shifting third-person limited

Truth emerges from multiple viewpoints, not singular authority

Wry, authoritative, profane Elder with oral history authority

Blurs boundaries between thought, speech, and narration

Urgent, slangy, confrontational activist with clipped sentences

Tactile, embodied, physical resistance; action over introspection

Hushed, intensely internal, cautious, navigating gendered traps

Tentative, ironic distance, explores late-discovered Indigeneity

Functions as sentient co-narrator through shared motifs

Affirms Aboriginal sovereignty over storytelling, rejects colonialism