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Year 9 students sitting their final NAPLAN need to be confident with literary devices — extended metaphor, allegory, symbolism. Analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references. Skillo has targeted practice questions for this exact skill, mapped to the Australian Curriculum v9.0, free and ready to go.
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What does the Year 9 NAPLAN Literary devices — extended metaphor, allegory, symbolism test cover?
- Analyse the effect of text structures, language features and literary devices such as extended metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbolism and intertextual references.
- Questions are based on original Australian passages
- Text types include narrative, informative and persuasive
Try a sample Literary devices — extended metaphor, allegory, symbolism question
Question 1 — Easy
A history textbook chapter on a significant battle is structured in three parts: first, the official heroic account as published by the victors immediately after the battle; second, letters sent home by soldiers on both sides; third, an archaeologist's analysis of physical evidence of civilian casualties at the site. What is the MOST LIKELY purpose of this three-part structure?
Answer: Option B is correct — The structure deliberately moves from the official heroic version to personal accounts to physical evidence. Each layer adds complexity and challenges the initial framing — the purpose is not to argue for one source but to show how multiple sources together produce a fuller, more complicated picture.
Question 2 — Medium
A speech begins each of its six paragraphs with the same phrase: 'We shall not tire.' Each paragraph builds to a climax before the next begins again with the same words — culminating in the final paragraph where the phrase appears three times in a row. What technique does this structural choice describe?
Answer: Option C is correct — Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses or paragraphs. Climax is the arrangement of ideas in order of increasing intensity. Together, they create a speech structure that builds emotional force toward the final, triple repetition.
Question 3 — Hard
Read the following passage, then answer the question. Nadia had inherited her grandmother's garden along with the house — a sprawling, somewhat chaotic half-acre that her grandmother had tended with fierce devotion for forty years. Where others saw overgrowth, her grandmother had seen a living archive: each plant a chapter, each season a revision. The ancient fig tree near the back fence had been planted the year her grandmother arrived in Australia. The rosemary hedge along the eastern boundary marked the year Nadia's mother was born. And the sprawling patch of warrigal greens, a native succulent her grandmother had cultivated long before 'bush tucker' became fashionable, was, she had always insisted, a reminder that this land had its own knowledge long before any of them arrived. Nadia stood at the back door, secateurs in hand, suddenly reluctant to prune anything at all. In this passage, the garden is best understood as a symbol of:
Answer: Option A is correct — The passage explicitly describes each plant as representing a moment in personal and cultural history — the fig tree, the rosemary hedge, and the warrigal greens each carry layered significance. The garden is portrayed as a living record of memory and heritage.
How should my child prepare for Year 9 NAPLAN Literary devices — extended metaphor, allegory, symbolism?
- Select Year 9 and Reading on the home screen
- Use Quick Practice — questions on literary devices — extended metaphor, allegory, symbolism will appear as part of the session
- Check the Skill Breakdown on your profile to track your accuracy on literary devices — extended metaphor, allegory, symbolism specifically
- Review explanations after each question to understand the reasoning behind correct answers
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