Year 9 Reading: Figurative_language_advanced

The phrase 'cognitively local' is a scientific-register metaphor. What does the spatial word 'local' imply about empathy's reach?

The drafting table 'stood at the centre of their Ballarat home like a monument.' The simile suggests the table is best understood as:

The final sentence — 'The law did not recognise the distance between those two versions of one life.' — uses which literary technique, and what does it achieve?

The phrase 'renders invisible' in the final sentence is a metaphor. What does it imply about the political effect of nostalgia?

The image of 'the original printed text barely visible beneath her additions' functions on both a literal and metaphorical level. What does the metaphorical level suggest?

The phrase 'no politically visible casualties' uses the word **'visible'** in a specific way. What does this word choice imply about the relationship between suffering and political action?

The phrase 'the ambiguity they had each been trading on' uses 'trading on' as a metaphor. What does it imply the parties were doing with the ambiguity?

The phrase 'blame was being allocated with the precision of people who had decided, quietly, that the allocation mattered more than the solution' uses irony. What is ironic about precision in this context?