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Understand how coherence is created in complex texts through devices like lexical cohesion, ellipsis, grammatical theme and text connectives (ACELA1809)

Elaborations
  • interpreting complex sentence structures through reading aloud literary texts such as sonnets or plays
  • using cohesive devices when writing complex texts
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Text connectives,  Cohesion (Language),  Ellipses (Punctuation)

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