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    looks somewhat out of line. He is pointing someone out as an act of intimidation. Homophobia is negative feelings and attitudes towards homosexuality. It is represented in line four with the rhetorical question ‘are you queer?’ it is representing a sense of hostility towards the homosexuals by asking that question. He uses sarcasm with the quote ‘ if you had one more brain it’d be lonely’. It is suggesting the soldier doesn’t actually have a brain to start with. The sergeant is referring to the

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    Ol' Higue

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    O’l Higue - Literature Notes Please note that the information given on this poem is not meant to replace any material given in the classroom setting. It is a very BASIC giude to enable a literal understanding of the poem. Metaphorical interpretations should be sought in the classroom.   The physical structure of this poem has been altered from the original layout in the text. You think I like this 5.stupidness! - 6.gallivanting all night without skin‚ 1.burning myself out like cane-fire 

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    broadcasted 5 years after the 9/11 and won the Royal Television Society Documentary Awards in 2006. Agards’s poem consists of 5 stanzas and each stanza has an 8-6-8-syllable count making it very structured. The first 4 stanzas start off with a question about something the speaker sees or envisions and is followed by an answer‚ therefore there are two voices. As everybody is aware flags are very symbolic objects‚ however in this poem Agard juxtaposes a flag as a “piece of cloth” continuously. This

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    'Away' by Michael Gow

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    Life is merely a journey. On a journey‚ an individual experiences a range of obstacles‚ either expected or unexpected‚ which shapes their life. Such obstacles initiate the process of change and transformation. Clearly‚ through a close study of the play ‘Away’ by Michael Gow‚ the poem ‘Whither will I Wander’ by William Shakespeare and the picture book ‘I had trouble in getting to Solla Sollew’ by Dr Seuss‚ the characters experience various degrees of change and transformation. Factors that impact

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    Questioning Techniques

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    They can influence the outcome of the answer‚ you can ask a question intending to get a long or short answer‚ can avoid the explanations this way you would be just cutting long stories short. Through questioning you can make a person/people feel comfortable‚ unsure‚ uncomfortable‚ or confused because of the options given by the question. One question can give you too many answers but it does not mean all the answers answer the question correctly or some could give you a few but in those few could

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    by posing rhetorical questions and by quoting daily life scenarios. What made his lecture more effective is that he quoted and mentioned people who had a big influence on this world due to their creativity likes of Picasso and Shakespeare. What I enjoyed most in his lecture is the unconventional method he used to highlight his main points in the audiences minds through humor. My only remark was that he did not give any solution. In the end sir ken Robinson finished with a big question that made the

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    character. We can begin to see that Lennie is simple minded. Lennie asks a very important question “why do you got to go get killed” This gives us a brief insight into what he is thinking. Lennie genuinely does not understand how or why he killed the puppy. He doesn’t even consider that he killed the puppy at this point. He is confused because he doesn’t understand his own strength. The rhetorical question Steinbeck weaves into this passage is very effective as it voices Lennies thoughts and concerns

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    audience‚ language devices…) 5) Specific choices I made include… (Explain your choices e.g. repetition of...to highlight… dialogue to create a sense of the character‚ title captures the tone of..‚ I have expressed the idea that...as a rhetorical question because...) 6) The ideas that have come from Growing up Asian in Australia are: (Discuss the ideas and why you chose them). 7) I also used these ideas to make links to a broader context. (Discuss influences from other sources such as the

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    ‘Stolen Generation’. This puts light back onto an issue that has been debated and talked about for a long time. The two words ‘White Australia’ also heavily implies the presence of racism that still exists in the society. Following this is a rhetorical question which slightly isolates the reader. This is used to make the reader reflect upon these issues and consider what has actually been done by various organisations to combat these problems. He continues this aggression with the listing of negative

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    Patrick Henry's Speech

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    the audience and image of what life is starting to look like. He describes it a “war-like preparations which cover our waters and darken our land.” This provides evidence of the impending danger. Henry also uses a lot of rhetorical questions and answer. One example of a question he asked that gives a hypothetical situation is “Has Great Britain any enemy‚ in this quarter of the world‚ to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?” and “They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other…”

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