Visual texts A
Poetry
Prose
Visual texts B
Non-fiction texts
100

Identify the key technique in this visual text (Visual 100)

- Rhetorical question

100

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

100

Identify as many techniques as you can in that extract (Prose 100)

- Visual imagery

- Future tense

100

Identify the key visual technique in this image 

(Visual B 100)

Colour

100

Identify as many language techniques as you can in this extract

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

200

Identify the key technique for the reference in this image (Visual A 200)

- Cultural allusion

200

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

200

Identify as many techniques as you can in this extract (prose 200)

- Contrast

- Coordinating conjunction


200

Identify the key visual technique in this image 

(Visual B 200)

- Contrast 

200

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

300

Identify as many techniques as you can in this image (Visual A 300)

- Biblical allusion

- Pun

300

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


300

Identify as many techniques as you can in this extract (Prose 300)

- Coordinating conjunction

- Rhetorical question ;)

300

Identify as many techniques as you can in this image (Visual B 300)

- Mid shot

- Salience

- Facial Expression

300

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

400

Identify what camera shots/angles are in this video

https://www.tiktok.com/@curiechemistry/video/7294759306686156034

- Tracking shot

- Low shot

400

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

400

Identify as many techniques as you can in this extract (Prose 400)

- Irony

- High modality language

- Truncated sentence

400

Identify as many visual techniques in this clip as you can

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6xqrCuLCyU/?igsh=cXB1MGo0djg0d3Bh

- Gaze

- Vectors 

- Contrast

400

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

500

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


500

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

500

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

500

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)

500

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