Literary and Language Terminology
Discuss reading, writing, and spoken language with precise and confident use of linguistic and literary terminology — including terms for word classes, sentence types, clause types, literary devices, and text-level features
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When your child discusses a book or piece of writing with a teacher, do they use precise language — like "the author uses a compound-complex sentence here" or "that's a non-restrictive relative clause" — rather than just saying "this bit is good"?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
present an opinion on a literary text using specific terms about literary devices, text structures and language features, and reflect on the viewpoints of others
identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
understand how vocabulary is used to express greater precision of meaning, including through the use of specialist and technical terms, and explore the history of words
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.