ACELA1518

Understand how authors often innovate on text structures and play with language features to achieve particular aesthetic, humorous and persuasive purposes and effects

Elaborations

• exploring a range of everyday, community, literary and informative texts discussing elements of text structure and language features and comparing the overall structure and effect of authors’ choices in two or more texts (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
• examining different works by an author who specialises in humour or pathos to identify strategies such as exaggeration and character embarrassment to amuse and to offer insights into characters’ feelings, so building empathy with their points of view and concern for their welfare (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding)

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