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I have chosen this video clip to represent the Urban Australian Perspective as this TV show, "Kath & Kim" is showing the stereotypical life of Australians. This show may give people around the world that don’t know much about Australia a brief idea of the places, the humour and the people. I chose this certain clip because it shows a few different episodes in the one short clip, it also tells the audience a lot about the characters and the humour involved in the TV series. Kath and Kim is an Urban Australian show because it is a series that is based in Australia and is played on TV all around Australia.





Title: Okay let's Be Honest Composer: Robert Walker Text Type: Poem

In the Poem ‘Okay let’s Be Honest’, the author Robert Walker uses many different language techniques to engage his audience and to convey a message that White Australia is more important than The Indigenous Australia.

Walker uses Colloquial Language as his main technique. Walker uses this technique because it can relate more to the reader as the language is what we would use in our everyday life, so it makes what he is saying seem very casual. In the text it says ‘One Sided?’ Yeah mate!’ This is use of colloquial language. ‘Yeah mate!’ this shows that the speaker is very adamant about what they are saying due to the use of the exclamation mark. ‘Mate’ is an Australian word that means a friend of the same gender, so he obviously knows the person he is talking to quite well.

Throughout the text there is quite a few Alliteration and Sibilance Techniques, Walker uses this because it makes the poem more fun and enjoyable to read, as it can be an interesting way of conveying what he is trying to say. ‘You have got brains and a bright future, there’s no battle to be fought.’ This alliteration has four of the letter ‘B’, the letter makes the sentence sounds a little less serious and a bit more fun, Walker could have used different words or letters but he had chose them carefully to make the sentence sound the way it does. In the text there is only one case of Sibilance and that is ‘Why do we have to live your way, in subtle slavery.’ Subtle Slavery is very powerful because it says so much in just two words.

The tone of this poem is very confronting; Walker has done this by really engaging the audience and trying to relate to real life situations. He does this by using so many different language techniques. The metaphors he uses throughout the text are quite mellow, as you wouldn’t really know they are metaphors.



I have chosen this image to represent the Urban Australian Perspective as this TV show, "Kath & Kim" is showing the stereotypical life of Australians. People round the world that haven't been to Australia or don't know anything about the country may get a brief idea of what Australia is like.