Language Features, Symbols, and Motifs (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Appearance/semblance of truth in literature

Short, clipped sentences mimicking clinical case notes

Blends character thoughts with narrator's voice seamlessly

Natural environment mirrors emotional states (weather)

War's dehumanizing gaze & unbearable witnessing of atrocity

Institutional violence invading the psyche

Healer's wound - vicarious trauma from treating patients

Communication breakdown & repressed homosexual desire

Metaphor for psychological recovery & moral repair

Spare & clinical, mirroring shell-shocked soldiers' state