Year 10 Indigenous Poetry 1

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Across
  1. 3. These are pitted against guns to symbolise the conflict Aboriginal people experience.
  2. 7. Oodgeroo equates the life of Aboriginal people to be like the life of...
  3. 8. When a sentence continues on to a next line without a pause; when the poet 'presses enter'.
  4. 11. Oodgeroo's original full name (without the space in the middle so it fits in the crossword).
  5. 12. Oodgeroo is originally from this island in Queensland
Down
  1. 1. A figure of speech (technique) where you compare one thing with another using 'like' or 'as'.
  2. 2. The term used to describe a person who inhabited or existed in a land before the arrival of colonist.
  3. 4. When you steal things by force, often in a time of war or conflict.
  4. 5. In 'I am Proud', the poet says that they are proud of two things - skin and ?
  5. 6. When you compare and contrast two things that are opposites.
  6. 9. A figure of speech (technique) where you refer to a thing by mentioning it as something else. In this way you suggest that the thing has properties like the 'something else'. e.g. My old bomb rattled while I drove it down the road.
  7. 10. Something that represents.