Across
- 2. Paired with droughts to show extremes
- 5. Describes the rain like an army
- 10. Describes Australia in the anthem’s opening line
- 12. Used to show hardship and suffering
- 13. Language that creates vivid sensory pictures in “My Country”
- 16. How Mackellar describes Australia in “My Country”
- 18. A repeated command in the anthem
- 19. Who is invited to rejoice
- 21. A harsh climate feature in the poem
- 24. Love of country shown in both texts
- 25. Describes the blue sky
- 26. Rhymes with soil and refers to hard work
Down
- 1. The way the anthem presents Australia
- 3. Describes the plains in “My Country”
- 4. A political term used in the anthem to describe the nation
- 6. A technique used in the anthem to reinforce unity
- 7. The first word of the Australian national anthem
- 8. A word in the anthem meaning surrounded
- 9. Describes Australia’s soil and wealth
- 11. A key value referenced in the anthem
- 14. Used in “My Country” between England and Australia
- 15. What Australia is “girt by”
- 17. Paired with beauty to show duality
- 20. Who gets to define what Australia is
- 22. How Mackellar presents the Australian landscape
- 23. The perspective or attitude expressed in a text