English- Standard
ENGLISH-SECTION ONE
Question One: Visual Text
I. What does this cartoon suggest about belonging?
The image shown suggests that the talking cartoon character feels he needs to isolate himself from the world until it is a happy place again that he wishes to live in. It is as if he only wishes to belong to places in which he believes are positive.
II. What features of this cartoon suggest this message?
The main reasons that suggest this is the text shown from the cartoon character and his body language. The cartoons speech is very negative toward belonging not just to place but also to self. The characters body language suggests to the readers that the image is of an unhappy and negative tone. Another feature that suggests this is the shading of the building this shows us a feeling of isolation which is created by the character in the way he is locking himself away from society and the world.
Question Two: Poem
I. What reflections does the poem offer on returning to the place where on grew up? Support your answer with detail from the poem.
Within the poem there are feelings of different tones. These being negative and positive to returning to Darwin. It seems that the author does not want to return when he say such quotes as “dragging my body behind”, this give a sense of disappointment as he uses an unwilling tone to describe what he is feeling when he arrives back in Darwin after twenty five years of leaving. The metaphor “landfill” is also used in describing his negative view, it has been said that throughout the poem that he cannot escape Darwin, it is as if he needs to belong to Darwin to survive. “It fills the nose like a childhood dunked in scented tea”, is another form of tone but in this cause takes on a positive perspective, this gives us a technique of emotive language. This technique gives the readers a better sense of what the character is experiencing at the present time. It also shows a connection because it suggests that he is willing to
Question One: Visual Text
I. What does this cartoon suggest about belonging?
The image shown suggests that the talking cartoon character feels he needs to isolate himself from the world until it is a happy place again that he wishes to live in. It is as if he only wishes to belong to places in which he believes are positive.
II. What features of this cartoon suggest this message?
The main reasons that suggest this is the text shown from the cartoon character and his body language. The cartoons speech is very negative toward belonging not just to place but also to self. The characters body language suggests to the readers that the image is of an unhappy and negative tone. Another feature that suggests this is the shading of the building this shows us a feeling of isolation which is created by the character in the way he is locking himself away from society and the world.
Question Two: Poem
I. What reflections does the poem offer on returning to the place where on grew up? Support your answer with detail from the poem.
Within the poem there are feelings of different tones. These being negative and positive to returning to Darwin. It seems that the author does not want to return when he say such quotes as “dragging my body behind”, this give a sense of disappointment as he uses an unwilling tone to describe what he is feeling when he arrives back in Darwin after twenty five years of leaving. The metaphor “landfill” is also used in describing his negative view, it has been said that throughout the poem that he cannot escape Darwin, it is as if he needs to belong to Darwin to survive. “It fills the nose like a childhood dunked in scented tea”, is another form of tone but in this cause takes on a positive perspective, this gives us a technique of emotive language. This technique gives the readers a better sense of what the character is experiencing at the present time. It also shows a connection because it suggests that he is willing to