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English Version 2.0

English Version 2.0 / Level 8 / Literature / Examining literature
Content description
explore how language features such as sentence patterns create tone and voice, and how literary devices such as imagery create meaning and aesthetic qualities in literary texts
Elaborations
  1. recognising that tone is influenced when an author uses active or passive voice
  2. examining how writers use tense and relatively simple language choices or more elaborate and complex syntax, and how these influence meaning
  3. recognising that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors use words and language to set tone when writing or speaking about specific themes, for example words used to set the tone when writing or speaking about Country
Code
VC2E8LE05
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