Visual texts A
Identify the key technique in this visual text (Visual 100)
- Rhetorical question
Identify as many techniques as you can in this poem
The Cow
The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
- Ogden Nash
- High modality language
- Onomatopoeia
- Caesura
- Juxtaposition
- Metonymy
Identify as many techniques as you can in that extract (Prose 100)
- Visual imagery
- Future tense
Identify the key visual technique in this image
(Visual B 100)
Colour
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Kids are driving their parents and teachers insane with the repetition of the numbers ‘6-7,’ but what does the meme mean, and where did it come from?
- High modality language
- Coordinating conjunction
- Rhetorical question
Identify the key technique for the reference in this image (Visual A 200)
- Cultural allusion
Identify as many techniques as you can in this poem
The Octopus
Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.
- Ogden Nash
- Rhetorical question
- Juxtaposition
- Inclusive language
Identify as many techniques as you can in this extract (prose 200)
- Contrast
- Coordinating conjunction
Identify the key visual technique in this image
(Visual B 200)
- Contrast
Identify as many language techniques as you can in this headline.
Therese left high school with poor marks and no uni offers. Now she’s the CEO of Oporto.
- High modality language
- Juxtaposition
- Personal anecdote
Identify as many techniques as you can in this image (Visual A 300)
- Biblical allusion
- Pun
Identify as many techniques as you can in this poem The Duck
Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.
- Ogden Nash
- Truncated sentence
- Rhyme
- High modality language
- Onomatopoeia
- Enjambment
- Visual imagery
Identify as many techniques as you can in this extract (Prose 300)
- Coordinating conjunction
- Rhetorical question ;)
Identify as many techniques as you can in this image (Visual B 300)
- Mid shot
- Salience
- Facial Expression
Identify as many language techniques as you can in this extract
Let’s talk about the ATAR first. Yes, the ATAR matters. But not necessarily in the way students think it does.
So the ATAR does not determine where students end up as much as it shapes where they start and the way they get there. It is more journey-defining than destination-defining.
- Coordinating conjunction
- Colloquial language
- High modality language
- Repetition (diacope)
- Juxtaposition
Identify what camera shots/angles are in this video
https://www.tiktok.com/@curiechemistry/video/7294759306686156034
- Tracking shot
- Low shot
Identify as many techniques as you can in this poem
How doth the little crocodile
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
- Lewis Carroll
- Visual imagery
- High modality language
- Cultural/geographical allusion
- Personification
- Irony
Identify as many techniques as you can in this extract (Prose 400)
- Irony
- High modality language
- Truncated sentence
Identify as many visual techniques in this clip as you can
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6xqrCuLCyU/?igsh=cXB1MGo0djg0d3Bh
- Gaze
- Vectors
- Contrast
Identify as many language techniques as you can in this article on ATAR results.
What if I’m not happy?
It is important to keep things in perspective. The ATAR may seem like a “portal to your future career” but it is just a number and one that can lose its relevance very quickly.
If you go on to university or other kind of study, those results and the experience you gain (including things such as internships) will become the key things employers want to know.
- Hypophora
- High modality language
- Low modality language
- Metaphor
- Coordinating conjunction
Identify as many visual techniques as you can in this clip
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPS-02_kcf5/?igsh=Z28zeTY4dWhvcW40
- Gaze
- Zoom
- Tracking shot
- Close up shot
- Long shot
- Facial expressions
Identify as many techniques as you can in this poem
Leopard
Gentle hunter
his tail plays on the ground
while he crushes the skull.
Beautiful death
who puts on a spotted robe
when he goes to his victim.
Playful killer
whose loving embrace
splits the antelope's heart.
- Oxymoron
- Juxtaposition
- Visual imagery
- Paradox
- Personification
- Metaphor
To the class of 2025,
It has been an absolute privilege and pleasure supporting you through your HSC journey.
As you enter your HSC exams, take confidence in the hours of effort you have put throughout Year 12 and that your ATAR does not reflect the character growth you have shown as emerging young adults.
Whatever roads you decide to take as the vast canvas of adulthood welcomes you into your new stage of life, I pray that you will be empowered when you reflect on the resilience, initiative and discipline you have demonstrated by overcoming the HSC.
God bless.
- Brandon
- Second person language
- High modality language
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Religious allusion
- Truncated sentence
Identify as many language techniques as you can in this clip
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG8j3TZxUy8/?igsh=MTBoZ2VpcGZjNGtuag%3D%3D
- Intertextuality
- Rhetorical question
- Visual imagery
- Pun
- Cultural allusion
- Repetition (Epizeuxis)
Identify as many language techniques as you can in this excerpt
A Year 12 formal is the equivalent of the Oscars or Grammy’s for school leavers. It’s all about the expensive dress, sitting in salons getting your hair, nails and makeup done, and taking as many photos as possible.
But, a new trend has emerged that sees students (and let’s face it, their parents) forking out hundreds of dollars to be in on.
On top of the outfits and expensive beauty treatments, suddenly, it’s all about hiring a really cool or classic car to arrive to the formal in so that everyone stops and stares.
Making an extravagant entrance, while everyone snaps your photo, it seems is the ultimate School Formal trend.
- Cultural allusion
- Visual imagery
- Cumulative listing
- Coordinating conjunction
- Hyperbole
- Low modality language