Year 9 NSW » English Skills » Skills by mode: reading and writing

Unit : Skills by mode: reading and writing

In this unit you will learn...

Topic 1 : Required skills and knowledge: concept

Chapter 1: Overview of language mode: Reading and Writing

Chapter 2: Context: personal and composer

Chapter 3: Purpose, audience, ideology and positioning

Chapter 4: Cultural assumptions and stereotypes

Chapter 5: Figurative language

Chapter 6: Connotation

Chapter 7: Readings: alternative, dominant, resistant

Chapter 8: Style: tone and register

Chapter 9: Style: written elements

Topic 2 : Required skills and knowledge - language features and techniques

Chapter 1: Alliteration, assonance, emotive language, colloquial, slang, jargon, neologism, cliché, rhetorical questions

Chapter 2: Simile, metaphor, idioms, personification, extended metaphor

Chapter 3: Hyperbole, allusion, symbolism, synechdoche, metonomy

Chapter 4: Sarcasm and irony

Chapter 5: Satire and parody

Chapter 6: Subversion, appropriation, intertextuality

This unit includes

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