Latin / Levels 9 and 10 / Engaging with texts / Responding to texts
Content description
Respond to Latin texts by analysing themes, values and literary features, such as plot development and characterisation, and sharing and justifying opinions
Elaborations
reading Latin texts and responding to questions in English to demonstrate understanding of content, context, purpose and technique
exploring how language is used to reveal character, values and key messages in texts such as narratives, dialogues, plays, poems and letters, for example, CenaTrimalchionis; odi et amo
discussing epic plots and characters, such as the Aeneid, for example, debating significant events and the author’s purpose
analysing plot development in texts such as plays and stories, discussing literary features, for example, use of comic episode, plot twist, climax, resolution
interpreting how particular stylistic effects are created, such as emphasis, doubt, irony or supposition, for example, sine dubio, satisconstat, utmihividetur
analysing how writers use language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous or persuasive purposes and effects, for example, diminutives such as puellula or homuncule
evaluating the effectiveness of texts, by considering the use of stylistic features, for example, simile, metaphor, personification or pathos, for particular purposes, such as to entertain or persuade
