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Content description VCEALL730

EAL / Level C3 / Linguistic Structures and Features / Word knowledge
Content description
Use vocabulary to create nuance, mood and feeling
Elaborations
  1. choosing vocabulary purposefully for particular effect, for example using some learnt colloquial or idiomatic phrases and humour appropriately
  2. showing awareness of social and cultural sensibilities in choice of synonyms, such as ‘plump’ versus ‘fat’, ‘people’ versus ‘humans’
Code
VCEALL730
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