Language Features and Symbolism (VCE SSCE English): Flashcards

Land as sentient being with agency, memory, spiritual connection

Style/level of language: vocabulary, formality, tone

Geological timescales in millions/billions of years

Noongar rainbow serpent who carved landscape in Dreaming

Relating to nature of being/existence—what is real

Blending geological science vocab with Noongar Dreaming language

Breaking of time by colonisation shown through dual syntax

First-person narrative voice given to land/river itself

Geological (tectonic), cultural (division), symbolic (sovereignty)

Buffers minds from deep time; creates historical amnesia