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AC9E5LE04

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Your child is learning to read the meaning behind picture-language in a text.

  • Identify a metaphor or simile in a passage and explain its effect on the reader
  • Explain how an author's word choice creates a particular tone (e.g., menacing, humorous, melancholic)
Figurative Language and Literary Devices →

One skill from the map, ages 11–14 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

“examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs”
EnglishYear 5Literature strand

Official source: Australian Curriculum v9 — English ↗ · Content © ACARA, CC BY 4.0 · unofficial reference — verify at the official site

Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).

10 other candidate matches — 6 medium, 4 low

medium confidence

Poetic forms and conventionsReading Comprehensionages 11–14 How Language Choices Affect the ReaderReading Comprehensionages 10–11 Expressive and Sensory LanguageReading Comprehensionages 6–9 Multimedia elements in textsReading Comprehensionages 10–11 Performing Scripts & PoetrySpeaking & Listeningages 11–14 Advanced Figurative LanguageVocabularyages 11–14

low confidence

Similes & MetaphorsVocabularyages 9–11 Cultural Allusions and Word MeaningReading Comprehensionages 9–10 Narrative Perspective and Unreliable NarratorsReading Comprehensionages 11–14 Narrator's Point of ViewReading Comprehensionages 9–10

Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.

Nearby in the Literature strand:
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