Year 10 Indigenous Poetry 1

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