Figurative and Emotive Vocabulary - Display
This set of A4 posters vividly illustrates key figurative language devices (simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idiom), along with emotive vocabulary and includes child-friendly examples and engaging visuals. Designed to support the Emotive Vocabulary unit, these ready-to-print posters reinforce literary techniques while brightening classroom walls.
Learning goals
- We are learning to understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes.
- We are learning to create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on our own experiences.
- We are learning to create texts by experimenting with structures, ideas and stylistic features of authors, e.g. narrative view point, structure of stanzas and juxtaposition.
- We are learning to investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion.
- We are learning to analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots.
- We are learning to identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts.
- We are learning to examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification and sound devices in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes.
- We are learning to create and edit texts by experimenting with figurative language, story lines, characters and settings.
- We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
- We are learning to analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E6LE02
9
Identify similarities and differences in literary texts on similar topics, themes or plots
AC9E6LA08
9
Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
AC9E5LE05
9
Create and edit literary texts, experimenting with figurative language, storylines, characters and settings from texts students have experienced
AC9E5LE04
9
Examine the effects of imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, and sound devices in narratives, poetry and songs
ACELT1612
8.4
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
ACELT1615
8.4
Identify and explain how choices in language, for example modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
ACELT1614
8.4
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots
ACELA1525
8.4
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
ACELT1798
8.4
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
ACELT1611
8.4
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
EN3-3A
old
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
EN3-2A
old
Composes, edits and presents well-structured and coherent texts
EN3-6B
old
Uses knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and vocabulary to respond to and compose clear and cohesive texts in different media and technologies
EN3-7C
old
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information and ideas and identifies connections between texts when responding to and composing texts
EN3-UARL-02
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
EN3-OLC-01
new
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
EN3-VOCAB-01
new
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts
EN3-RECOM-01
new
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
EN3-CWT-01
new
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language
EN3-SPELL-01
new
Automatically applies taught phonological, orthographic and morphological generalisations and strategies when spelling in a range of contexts, and justifies spelling strategies used to spell unfamiliar words
EN3-HANDW-01
new
Sustains a legible, fluent and automatic handwriting style
EN3-HANDW-02
new
Selects digital technologies to suit audience and purpose to create texts
EN3-UARL-01
new
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
VCELA352
Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion
VCELT342
Identify and explain how choices in language, including modality, emphasis, repetition and metaphor, influence personal response to different texts
VCELT341
Analyse and evaluate similarities and differences in texts on similar topics, themes or plots
VCELT327
Create literary texts that experiment with structures, ideas and stylistic features of selected authors
VCELT328
Create literary texts using realistic and fantasy settings and characters that draw on the worlds represented in texts students have experienced
VCELT316
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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