AC9E9LE05
Year 9
English
AC9E9LE05 – Year 9 English: Examining literature
Substrand
Examining literature
This Content Descriptor from Year 9 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Content Description
analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references
Elaborations
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1
examining how different authors make use of devices such as imagery, and explaining the effect of these choices on audiences
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2
identifying examples of literary devices in a range of poems and considering how they contribute to meaning and influence the emotional responses of the audience
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