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Secret River- Techniques (Syntax (sentence types (minor, simple, compound,…
Secret River- Techniques
Foreshadowing
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When you explore the effect always briefly state the details of what other events in the novel are being foreshadowed.
Imagery
the use of words to evoke impressions and meanings that are more than just the basic, accepted definitions of the words themselves.
Inference
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The subtext, or underlying meaning, of what is communicated.
Irony
Elizabethan rhetoricians called irony a figure of speech that says ‘the thing that is not’: in other words, it offers a contradiction that underlies the overt meaning of what is communicated;
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Grenville uses irony to reveal the flaw in Thornhill’s ambition – usually through mocking or ominous details of the natural world.
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Metaphor
a comparison of two things that are fundamentally dissimilar in which one is described in terms of the other.
Narrative point of View
the position or vantage point, determined by the author Grenville, from which the story seems to come to the reader.
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Free Indirect Discourse
the free indirect discourse where we ‘get inside the head’ of a character, entering his consciousness directly, as if we can read the actual words he is thinking while maintaining the presentation of third-person narration
Personification
a figure of speech in which an object, abstract idea, or animal is given human characteristics. E.g. “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.”
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Symbol
an object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, usually an idea or concept;
Grenville uses symbolism to portray the colonisers as parasites on Australia’s natural bounty: “He was nothing more than a flea on the side of some enormous quiet creature” (p4); and when Blackwood warns Thornhill on how to live harmoniously with the Aborigines “otherwise you’re a dead as flea” (p110).
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Syntax
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Consider how clauses fit together; how do a variety of sentence types fit together to create specific prose rhythms;
always consider why Grenville wants to decrease or increase the pace of these prose rhythms; in other words in what ways do the choices Grenville makes in how she writes support the meaning of what she writes
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sentence types
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They affect the prose rhythm allowing for fluctuations in pace and urgency in action scenes, for example, or slowing down the narrative pace to one of reverential awe when describing the natural world or the dignity of the Aborigines.
Parts of speech
word classes: identify them in your descriptions of effect, that is, how types of verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, shape the reader’s response to what is being described.
Theme
the central or dominant idea behind the story. Bear them in mind when you do close reading of a passage.