VC2E5LE04
Parents start here
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)
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).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in English, Level 5. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — English ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — ✓ marks codes where Victoria kept the national numbering; all correspondences are machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
explain the way authors use sound and imagery to create meaning and effect in poetry
examine the use of literary devices and deliberate word play in literary texts, including poetry, to shape meaning
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence1 skill
5 other candidate matches — 3 medium, 2 low
medium confidence
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Literature strand (Level 5):
VC2E5LE01VC2E5LE02VC2E5LE03VC2E5LE05
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