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An example of how the author uses symbolism to signify the destructive power of nature can be found in the line, "the dead child's hand". By repeating this creepy image of a dead child's hand found after the devastating impact of the flood, the author creates a haunting symbol representing the destruction of nature.

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Flood Year: Judith Wright uses the sounds and sights with sensory description in the example, “ Oh with a wild sound water flung into the air” By  vividly describing the motion of flinging water and violent sounds of the flood, the author positions the audience to see the destructive power of nature.

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Municipal Gum: Oodgeroo Noonuccal compares the Municipal Gum to a area of black grass and bitumen. These connotations of the words make the Municipal Gum sound like a lonely dead tree.

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Percy Shelly uses imagery such as 'Half sunk a shattered visage lies,' to describe the fallen statue of Ozymandias. The word choice of 'sunk a shattered,' reflects connotations of destruction, therefore positioning the reader to understand the main message that nothing lasts forever.

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‘When I was there the thick hurling waters had gone back to the river, the farms almost drained.’ This could be conveyed as a metaphor, as not only had the farms drained the water, but their hope had also drained.

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Ozymandias (Leilah Craig)                       When Percy Bysshe Shelley states the statue of the reader has a ‘sneer of cold command,’ the stone becomes personifies to represent the harsh and powerful ruler.            

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Ozymandias (Leilah Craig)                       When Percy Bysshe Shelley states the statue of the reader has a ‘sneer of cold command,’ the stone becomes personifies to represent the harsh and powerful ruler.            

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Ozymandias                      (Adam Saunders)             Within the line ‘wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command.’ It show’s the symbol of a leader. This imagery is created throught the section of the quote, ‘cold command.’ This potrays the readre to think of a corrupt ruler by using cold as a discription of selfishness and command as a evil and ordering personality.    

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Ozymandias                      (Adam Saunders)             Within the line ‘wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command.’ It show’s the symbol of a leader. This imagery is created throught the section of the quote, ‘cold command.’ This potrays the readre to think of a corrupt ruler by using cold as a discription of selfishness and command as a evil and ordering personality.    

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Municipal Gum (Ashton) Oodgeroo Noonuccal uses the quote 'Hard bitumen around your feet' to personify the tree and symbolise the damage done by the colonisers and how they ruined all aspects of nature.    

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Municipal Gum (Ashton) Oodgeroo Noonuccal uses the quote 'Hard bitumen around your feet' to personify the tree and symbolise the damage done by the colonisers and how they ruined all aspects of nature.    

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The Witch Has Told You A Story (Ms Dutton)

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The Witch Has Told You A Story (Ms Dutton)

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The poet employs a deliberate changing of personal pronouns throughout the poet in order to emphasize the tragic situation of being overcome by temptations. The poem beings with 'you' such as 'you are food'. This brings the reader into the poem. However, pat way through it switches to 'he' until the end of the poem. This gives the reader a feeling of helplessness as the poem moves from focusing on the reader to the brother. The reader now can do nothing but watch the tragic fate of their brother who is giving in to the witch's temptations and foods.

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Municipal gum: Oodgeroo Noonuccal uses the sentence “what have they done to us?” to make the reader think about the poem and think about what happened to their people and it make the reader feel distressed.

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Throughout the poem, the poet repeats the words ‘the child’s hand’. This signifies that the victim was only a child, stereotypically known to be the most vulnerable people in society.

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Ozymandias (Leilah Craig)                       When the author highlights that the statue has ‘a half sunk and shattered visage’, the poet uses alliteration in this line to position the reader to view the ruler as forgotten. Furthermore, as the alliteration draws the attention to the words 'sunk and shattered' which have broken and forgotten connotations the audience is positioned to see how eventually even very powerful and harsh people are forgotten. 

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Ozymandias (Leilah Craig)                       When the author highlights that the statue has ‘a half sunk and shattered visage’, the poet uses alliteration in this line to position the reader to view the ruler as forgotten. Furthermore, as the alliteration draws the attention to the words 'sunk and shattered' which have broken and forgotten connotations the audience is positioned to see how eventually even very powerful and harsh people are forgotten. 

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The use of the rhetorical question “What have they done to us?” makes the reader feel what the poet is describing in the poem to help the audience see the brutality of man kind and how they have affected the beauty of nature.

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Municipal Gum: Oodgeroo Noonuccal adds in three negative connotation words. Castrated, broken and a thing wronged. these bring about images of something that is oppressed, trapped and demoralized.

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal ends her poem with a rhetorical question, 'O fellow citizen, what have they done to us?'. The question prompts the reader to understand the dire situation that Europeans have created for Indigenous people through urbanization. Furthermore, the use of the personal pronoun 'us' makes it clear that the poet is speaking about herself as part of an Indigenous community. This takes the focus of the poem and the sadness the poet feels further from just her, and extends this oppression and pain to the experience of all Indigenous people.

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In the poem author states “Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, in sneer of cold command”. With the use personification he shows the extreme anger of the ruler.

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In the poem, The Witch Has Told You a Story, there is a lot of use of Personal Pronouns. An example of this is 'You are hear for me to eat,' which would make the reader feel as though they are being threatened by the witch in the poem.

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Ozymandias: the author of Ozymandias  
Uses alliteration in “sneer of cold command”, which gives the reader the idea that he was a corrupt, strict and cruel ruler. 

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The quote from Ozymandias, ‘whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command’ is an effective triplet which also doubles up as personification, giving the statue human like qualities.

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The quote from Ozymandias, ‘whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command’ is an effective triplet which also doubles up as personification, giving the statue human like qualities.

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Xander kline

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Percy Shelley uses the quote, 'half sunk a shattered visage lies', to demonstrate that even the work of mighty kings won't stay forever, which is the main message of the poem. This quote gives the connotation

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Percy Shelley uses the quote, 'half sunk a shattered visage lies', to demonstrate that even the work of mighty kings won't stay forever, which is the main message of the poem. This quote gives the connotation

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I wandered lonely as a cloud (Matthew Dyer)

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I wandered lonely as a cloud (Matthew Dyer)

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I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth uses the sentence “The waves beside them danced” to describe the waves moving as dancing to give them human characteristics.

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Ozymandias (Elijah) The Author Uses Alliteration through Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command to express the condition of not only the statue but of the Kings legacy and even though he had a mighty empire over the years it has been forgotten. 

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Ozymandias (Elijah) The Author Uses Alliteration through Wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command to express the condition of not only the statue but of the Kings legacy and even though he had a mighty empire over the years it has been forgotten. 

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In the final stanza, the words ‘wild sound of water flung into the air’ position the reader to see and hear the crashing waves, and to become immersed in the poem as if the reader were the narrator, experiencing the unpredictable weather. The effect of this is to connect the reader to what the poet is describing in the poem. Judith Wright has creates a developed and accurate view of the unpredictable environment that is experienced in Australia.

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William Wordsworth’s poem, I wondered lonely as a cloud, uses similes to help the reader form a vivid picture. For example, the quote ‘I wondered lonely as a cloud’, positions the reader to think that he is wondering by himself, as lonely as a cloud, but he is just walking alone, over hills and valleys not feeling sad.

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The triplets ‘ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep’ explains that whatever the creature is, it must be very powerful because no one is waking it up and going near it.

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“Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley Using the imagery, “boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Percy was able to develop an image in the readers / audiences’ minds of how big and boundless the desert is but also how quiet it is, showing how even the monuments of mighty kings cant be seen forever as legacies.

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“Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley Using the imagery, “boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” Percy was able to develop an image in the readers / audiences’ minds of how big and boundless the desert is but also how quiet it is, showing how even the monuments of mighty kings cant be seen forever as legacies.

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I wandered as lonely as a cloud: (Isabella)

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I wandered as lonely as a cloud: (Isabella)

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William Wordsworth uses personification throughout the poem to vividly emphasize to the reader where human qualities get given to non-human things. For example, in the quote ‘Tossing their heads in sprightly dance’ the reader is trying to get the reader to picture how the flowers move calmly and elegantly when in reality comparing them to dancers they are unable to do that.

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I wandered lonely as a cloud (Matthew Dyer)

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I wandered lonely as a cloud (Matthew Dyer)

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I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth uses the sentence “tossing their heads in a sprightly dance” to give the object human characteristics so that the reader feels more joyful.

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The witch has told you a story (James Purnell)

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The witch has told you a story (James Purnell)

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“He will lean towards the maw of the oven” this creates the idea of an animal like mouth making the oven seem like an evil villain/animal tat will eat anything.

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Ozymandias: the poet Percy Shelly uses sensory description in the quote “lone and level sands stretch far away” to prove that nothing lasts forever. The poet uses imagery and sensory description to give the audience and vague sense of the empty landscape and baron wasteland that was once a kingdom. Furthermore, using alliteration “lone and level” the poet highlights and emphasis the emptiness of the once thriving kingdom and proves that nothing lasts forever.

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Ozymandias: an example of how nothing can truly last forever is shown using personification, in the quote “Half sunk and shattered visage lies”. The author uses personification to liken the statue to a person, doing this the author makes the reader subconsciously feel that even they can not last forever and will one day be forgotten.

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An example of how personal pronouns can be used to make a poem feel intimidating and uncomfortable can be seen in the example “you are food, you are here for me”. By using personal pronouns the poet Ava Haymon attaches the reader to the poem, this makes the audience feel like there in the poem and trapped with the witch further emphasising the level of fear in the poem.