My Children! My Africa! (Grade 12 NSC Matric English FAL): Flashcards
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Symbol definition
Symbol definition
Represents something beyond its literal meaning
Brakwater literal meaning
Brakwater literal meaning
Brackish water - high salt, unpleasant, unsafe to drink
Brakwater figurative meaning
Brakwater figurative meaning
Harsh living conditions, poverty, suffering under apartheid
Camdeboo figurative meaning
Camdeboo figurative meaning
Hope, beauty, possibility of a better life
School bell symbolises
School bell symbolises
Authority and institutional order
Matchboxes figurative meaning
Matchboxes figurative meaning
Confined living conditions, poverty, oppression, segregation
Dictionary symbolises
Dictionary symbolises
Education, learning, transformative power of language
Stone symbolises
Stone symbolises
Violent protest and destruction
Debate symbolises
Debate symbolises
Civilised discussion, negotiation, orderly way of doing things
Ozymandias symbolises
Ozymandias symbolises
Political power, oppression; that mighty systems crumble