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English / Year 8 / Language / Language for interaction
Curriculum content descriptions
Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how different layers of meaning are developed through the use of metaphor, irony and parody (ACELA1542)
Elaborations
- identifying and evaluating examples of how rhetorical devices reveal the dark or serious aspects of a topic in ways that cause laughter or amusement, for example by making a statement but implying/meaning the opposite (irony); exaggerating or overstating something (hyperbole); imitating or sending up something (parody), and making something appear less serious than it really is (understatement)
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ScOT terms
Literary devices, Understatement, Metaphors, Irony, Hyperbole, Parodies