English / Level 1 / Literature / Literature and context
Content description
Discuss how authors create characters using language and images
Elaborations
identifying similarities between texts from different cultural traditions, for example representations of dragons in traditional European and Asian texts, and how spiritual beings are represented in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories
identifying some features of characters and how particular words and images convey qualities of their nature, for example some characters are portrayed as shy, others adventurous
discussing the characters of fictional animals and how they relate to those of humans
