Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole

Understand that language varies as levels of formality and social distance increase

Understand the uses of objective and subjective language, and identify bias

Explain how texts across the curriculum are typically organised into characteristic stages and phases depending on purposes, recognising how authors often adapt text structures and language features

Understand that cohesion can be created by the intentional use of repetition, and the use of word associations

Understand how embedded clauses can expand the variety of complex sentences to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

Understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups