The Coconut Children vocabulary builder

The Coconut Children Vocabulary

By Lindsay Bennie

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The streets bathed in the sunshine shamelessly baring their scars. This is an example of

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• symbolism

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Social process which pushes people to the edge of society where they feel excluded.

• juxtaposition

• Dualism

• assimilation

• Marginalisation

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The state of being caught between two different cultures.

• inheritance

• Dualism

• identity

• third culture

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Descriptions which create strong, gut-level emotional responses in readers by appealing to physical sensations and primal emotions.

• cerebral

• emotive

• visceral

• rational

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Referring to the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked, harmed, or damaged, either physically or emotionally.

• volatility

• resilience

• immunity

• vulnerability

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When people from one culture adopt the ways, beliefs, and behaviours of another culture, sometimes losing parts of their original cultural identity along the way.

• assimilation

• pluralism

• multiculturalism

• preservation

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When people are forced to leave their homes or countries (like refugees) or

when one cultural group is pushed out of an area by another group.

• diaspora

• exodus

• displacement

• settlement

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Refers to being in-between or at a threshold—not quite in one state and not quite in another.

• conflicted

• rootedness

• centrality

• liminal

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A group of people who have spread or been scattered from their original homeland to different places around the world.

• refugees

• diaspora

• natives

• migrants

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What literary device involves using objects, colors, characters, or events to represent abstract ideas or qualities beyond their literal meaning

• paradox

• symbolism

• assonance

• imagery