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Language

NT1 Communication (Language)
NT1 Composing (Texts) [+~]
- NT2 Adaptations (Writing)
- NT2 Drafting
- NT2 Editing
- NT2 Illustration
- NT2 Journalism [+~]
  - NT3 Broadcast journalism [+~]
    - NT4 Current affairs
    - NT4 Hard news
    - NT4 Headlines
    - NT4 Vox pop
  - NT3 Editorials
  - NT3 Photojournalism
  - NT3 Presenting
  - NT3 Print journalism
- NT2 Maori culture
- NT2 Notetaking
- NT2 Report writing
- NT2 Rhetorical devices [+~]
  - NT3 Alienation effect
  - NT3 Allegory (Rhetoric) [+~]
    - NT4 Fables
    - NT4 Parables
  - NT3 Alliterations
  - NT3 Allusions
  - NT3 Ambiguity
  - NT3 Analogy [+~]
    - NT4 Anthropomorphism
  - NT3 Apostrophes (Rhetorical device)
  - NT3 Appropriation (Rhetorical device)
  - NT3 Caricatures
  - NT3 Connotations
  - NT3 Denotations
  - NT3 Dialogue [+~]
    - NT4 Asides
    - NT4 Captions
    - NT4 Speech balloons
  - NT3 Diction
  - NT3 Dissonances
  - NT3 Dramatic action
  - NT3 Emotive language
  - NT3 Figures of speech [+~]
    - NT4 Antitheses
    - NT4 Assonance
    - NT4 Consonance
    - NT4 Hyperbole
    - NT4 Irony [+]
    - NT4 Metaphors [+]
    - NT4 Metonyms
    - NT4 Onomatopoeia
    - NT4 Oxymorons
    - NT4 Personification
    - NT4 Rhetorical questions
    - NT4 Similes
  - NT3 Flash forwards
  - NT3 Flashbacks
  - NT3 Humour
  - NT3 Imagery (Rhetorical device) [+~]
    - NT4 Aural imagery
    - NT4 Tactile imagery
    - NT4 Visual imagery
  - NT3 Intertextuality
  - NT3 Juxtaposition [+~]
    - NT4 Collocations
  - NT3 Malapropisms
  - NT3 Monologues
  - NT3 Motifs [+~]
    - NT4 Dance motifs
  - NT3 Narration
  - NT3 Paradoxes
  - NT3 Parodies
  - NT3 Perspective (Rhetorical device)
  - NT3 Persuasive techniques [+~]
    - NT4 Repetition (Rhetorical device)
    - NT4 Rule of three
  - NT3 Puns
  - NT3 Referential language
  - NT3 Satire
  - NT3 Structure (Rhetorical device) [+~]
    - NT4 Acts [+]
    - NT4 Characters (Rhetorical device) [+]
    - NT4 Cohesion (Language)
    - NT4 Contexts [+]
    - NT4 Interludes (Drama)
    - NT4 Literary style [+]
    - NT4 Plots (Stories) [+]
    - NT4 Setting (Rhetorical device)
  - NT3 Suspense
- NT2 Scriptwriting [+~]
  - NT3 Drama scripts [+~]
    - NT4 Stage directions [+]
  - NT3 Film scripts
  - NT3 Radio scripts
  - NT3 Television scripts
- NT2 Writing materials [+~]
  - NT3 Paper
  - NT3 Pencils
  - NT3 Pens
NT1 Language conventions [+~]
- NT2 Capitalisation
- NT2 Grammar [+~]
  - NT3 Clauses
  - NT3 Meanings (Words) [+~]
    - NT4 Antonyms
    - NT4 Homonyms
    - NT4 Synonyms
    - NT4 Transformational grammar
    - NT4 Vocabulary
  - NT3 Metalanguage
  - NT3 Morphology [+~]
    - NT4 Morphemes [+]
  - NT3 Paragraphs
  - NT3 Phrases (Grammar) [+~]
    - NT4 Adjectival phrases
    - NT4 Adverbial phrases
    - NT4 Noun phrases
    - NT4 Prepositional phrases
    - NT4 Verb phrases
  - NT3 Plurals
  - NT3 Sentences [+~]
    - NT4 Complex sentences
    - NT4 Compound sentences
    - NT4 Exclamations
    - NT4 Predicates
    - NT4 Questions
    - NT4 Simple sentences
    - NT4 Statements
    - NT4 Topic sentences
  - NT3 Syntax
  - NT3 Voice (Verbs) [+~]
    - NT4 Active voice
    - NT4 Passive voice
  - NT3 Words [+~]
    - NT4 Adjectives [+]
    - NT4 Adverbs
    - NT4 Compound words
    - NT4 Conjunctions
    - NT4 Homophones
    - NT4 Measure words
    - NT4 Nouns [+]
    - NT4 Prepositions
    - NT4 Pronouns
    - NT4 Verbs [+]
- NT2 Handwriting [+~]
  - NT3 Calligraphy
  - NT3 Foundation Style
- NT2 Punctuation [+~]
  - NT3 Apostrophes (Punctuation)
  - NT3 Colons
  - NT3 Commas
  - NT3 Dashes
  - NT3 Dot points
  - NT3 Exclamation marks
  - NT3 Full stops
  - NT3 Hyphens
  - NT3 Parentheses
  - NT3 Question marks
  - NT3 Quotation marks
  - NT3 Semicolons
- NT2 Spelling
NT1 Listening
NT1 Literacy [+~]
- NT2 Functional literacy
- NT2 Language proficiency [+~]
  - NT3 Multilingualism [+~]
    - NT4 First language
    - NT4 Second languages [+]
- NT2 Viewing
NT1 Literature [+~]
- NT2 Children's literature
- NT2 Drama [+~]
  - NT3 Comedies [+~]
    - NT4 Black comedy
    - NT4 Comedy of errors
    - NT4 Comedy of humours
    - NT4 Comedy of manners
    - NT4 Commedia dell'arte
    - NT4 Fale'aitu
    - NT4 Farces [+]
    - NT4 High comedy [+]
    - NT4 Low comedy
    - NT4 Pantomime
    - NT4 Skits
    - NT4 Tragicomedies
  - NT3 Didactic drama
  - NT3 Dramatic tension
  - NT3 English drama [+~]
    - NT4 Shakespearean drama
    - NT4 Victorian drama
  - NT3 Epic drama
  - NT3 Feminist drama
  - NT3 Historical drama
  - NT3 Medieval drama
  - NT3 Melodrama
  - NT3 Performance art [+~]
    - NT4 Interactive art
  - NT3 Picaresque drama
  - NT3 Play reading
  - NT3 Soap operas
  - NT3 Tragedy [+~]
    - NT4 Revenge tragedies
  - NT3 Verse drama
- NT2 Genres [+~]
  - NT3 Adventure stories
  - NT3 Animal stories
  - NT3 Australian stories
  - NT3 Biographical fiction
  - NT3 Choose your own stories
  - NT3 Crime stories
  - NT3 Documentaries [+~]
    - NT4 Animal films
  - NT3 Documentary drama [+~]
    - NT4 Living newspaper drama
  - NT3 Fairy tales
  - NT3 Family sagas
  - NT3 Fantasy
  - NT3 Historical fiction
  - NT3 Horror stories
  - NT3 Humorous stories
  - NT3 Love stories
  - NT3 Mystery and suspense stories
  - NT3 New Zealand stories
  - NT3 School stories
  - NT3 Science fiction [+~]
    - NT4 Land Councils
  - NT3 Supernatural stories
  - NT3 Verse stories
  - NT3 War stories
  - NT3 Westerns
  - NT3 Wordless stories
- NT2 Poetry [+~]
  - NT3 Acrostics
  - NT3 Enjambments
  - NT3 Free verse
  - NT3 Limericks
  - NT3 Lyric poetry [+~]
    - NT4 Elegies
    - NT4 Haiku
    - NT4 Odes
    - NT4 Sonnets
  - NT3 Metaphysical poetry
  - NT3 Narrative poetry [+~]
    - NT4 Ballads [+]
    - NT4 Epic poetry
  - NT3 Nonsense poetry
  - NT3 Nursery rhymes
  - NT3 Performance poetry
  - NT3 Romantic poetry
  - NT3 Shape poetry
  - NT3 Versification [+~]
    - NT4 Blank verse
    - NT4 Cinquains
    - NT4 Couplets
    - NT4 Metre (Poetry) [+]
    - NT4 Quatrains
    - NT4 Rhymes [+]
    - NT4 Rhythm (Poetry)
    - NT4 Sense forms
    - NT4 Stanzas
- NT2 Prose [+~]
  - NT3 Diaries [+~]
    - NT4 Blogs
  - NT3 Essays
  - NT3 Fiction [+~]
    - NT4 Short stories [+]
  - NT3 Letters (Correspondence) [+~]
    - NT4 Business letters
    - NT4 Letters of complaint
    - NT4 Letters to the editor
    - NT4 Personal letters
  - NT3 Nonfiction [+~]
    - NT4 Autobiographies
    - NT4 Biographies
  - NT3 Speeches [+~]
    - NT4 Monologues
    - NT4 Political speeches
    - NT4 Soliloquies
- NT2 Regional literature [+~]
  - NT3 Aboriginal literature [+~]
    - NT4 Aboriginal English literature
  - NT3 African literature [+~]
    - NT4 Angolan literature
    - NT4 Kenyan literature
    - NT4 Nigerian literature
    - NT4 South African literature
    - NT4 Zambian literature
  - NT3 Albanian literature
  - NT3 American literature
  - NT3 Arabic literature
  - NT3 Armenian literature
  - NT3 Australian literature
  - NT3 Bengali literature
  - NT3 Canadian literature
  - NT3 Chinese literature
  - NT3 Classical Greek literature [+~]
    - NT4 Classical Greek drama [+]
  - NT3 Croatian literature
  - NT3 Czech literature
  - NT3 Dutch literature
  - NT3 Egyptian literature
  - NT3 English literature [+~]
    - NT4 English drama [+]
  - NT3 Estonian literature
  - NT3 Filipino literature
  - NT3 French literature
  - NT3 German literature
  - NT3 Greek literature [+~]
    - NT4 Greek drama [+]
  - NT3 Hebrew literature
  - NT3 Hindi literature
  - NT3 Hungarian literature
  - NT3 Indian literature
  - NT3 Indonesian literature
  - NT3 Irish literature
  - NT3 Italian literature
  - NT3 Japanese literature
  - NT3 Khmer literature
  - NT3 Korean literature
  - NT3 Latin literature
  - NT3 Latvian literature
  - NT3 Lithuanian literature
  - NT3 Macedonian literature
  - NT3 Malaysian literature
  - NT3 Maltese literature
  - NT3 Maori literature
  - NT3 Modern Greek literature
  - NT3 New Zealand literature
  - NT3 Pacific Island literatures
  - NT3 Persian literature
  - NT3 Polish literature
  - NT3 Portuguese literature
  - NT3 Romanian literature
  - NT3 Russian literature
  - NT3 Samoan literature
  - NT3 Serbian literature
  - NT3 Slovenian literature
  - NT3 South American literature
  - NT3 Spanish literature
  - NT3 Swedish literature
  - NT3 Tamil literature
  - NT3 Tokelauan literature
  - NT3 Tongan literature
  - NT3 Torres Strait Islander literature
  - NT3 Turkish literature
  - NT3 Ukrainian literature
  - NT3 Vietnamese literature
- NT2 Sacred literature
NT1 Natural languages [+~]
- NT2 Aboriginal languages
- NT2 Albanian language
- NT2 Arabic language
- NT2 Armenian language
- NT2 Bengali language
- NT2 Braille
- NT2 Chinese languages [+~]
  - NT3 Cantonese dialects
  - NT3 Gan dialects
  - NT3 Hakka dialects
  - NT3 Hokkien dialects
  - NT3 Hui dialects
  - NT3 Jin dialects
  - NT3 Mandarin dialects
  - NT3 Min dialects
  - NT3 Wu dialects
  - NT3 Xian dialects
- NT2 Classical Greek language
- NT2 Colloquial language [+~]
  - NT3 Slang
- NT2 Creoles
- NT2 Croatian language
- NT2 Czech language
- NT2 Dialects
- NT2 Dutch language
- NT2 English language [+~]
  - NT3 Aboriginal English
  - NT3 Animal care
  - NT3 Animal science
  - NT3 Australian English [+~]
    - NT4 Standard Australian English
- NT2 Esperanto
- NT2 Estonian language
- NT2 Filipino language
- NT2 French language
- NT2 German language
- NT2 Greek language
- NT2 Hebrew language
- NT2 Hindi language
- NT2 Hungarian language
- NT2 Idioms
- NT2 Indonesian language
- NT2 Italian language
- NT2 Japanese language
- NT2 Khmer language
- NT2 Korean language
- NT2 Latin language
- NT2 Latvian language
- NT2 Lithuanian language
- NT2 Macedonian language
- NT2 Malaysian language
- NT2 Maltese language
- NT2 Maori language
- NT2 Pacific Island languages
- NT2 Persian language
- NT2 Polish language
- NT2 Portuguese language
- NT2 Romanian language
- NT2 Russian language
- NT2 Samoan language
- NT2 Serbian language
- NT2 Slovenian language
- NT2 Spanish language
- NT2 Swedish language
- NT2 Tamil language
- NT2 Thai language
- NT2 Tibetan language
- NT2 Tokelauan language
- NT2 Tongan language
- NT2 Torres Strait Islander languages [+~]
  - NT3 Kala Lagaw Ya [+~]
    - NT4 Kalaw Kawaw Ya
  - NT3 Meriam Mir
- NT2 Turkish language
- NT2 Ukrainian language
- NT2 Vietnamese language
NT1 Nonverbal communication [+~]
- NT2 Facial expressions
- NT2 Gestures
- NT2 Sign language
- NT2 Signals
NT1 Reading [+~]
- NT2 Comprehension [+~]
  - NT3 Alternative readings
  - NT3 Criticism [+~]
    - NT4 Feminist criticism
    - NT4 Marxist criticism
    - NT4 Off road vehicles
    - NT4 Psychoanalytic criticism
  - NT3 Dominant readings
  - NT3 Drama semiotics
  - NT3 Key ideas
  - NT3 Resistant readings
  - NT3 Theatre semiotics
- NT2 Oral reading
- NT2 Scanning
- NT2 Skimming
- NT2 Speed reading
NT1 Speech [+~]
- NT2 Accents (Speech)
- NT2 Intonation
- NT2 Pitch (Sound)
- NT2 Pronunciation
- NT2 Stress (Speech)
- NT2 Syllables [+~]
  - NT3 Allegory (Visual arts)
NT1 Text types [+~]
- NT2 Factual texts [+~]
  - NT3 Alternative culture
  - NT3 Annual reports
  - NT3 Articles of association
  - NT3 Bibliographies
  - NT3 Car manuals
  - NT3 Certificates
  - NT3 Diagrams [+~]
    - NT4 Arrow diagrams
    - NT4 Block diagrams
    - NT4 Flow charts
    - NT4 Network diagrams
  - NT3 Dictionaries
  - NT3 Directories
  - NT3 Discussions
  - NT3 Encyclopedias
  - NT3 Explanations
  - NT3 Expositions (Factual texts) [+~]
    - NT4 Hectopascals
  - NT3 Factual descriptions
  - NT3 Factual recounts
  - NT3 Financial records [+~]
    - NT4 Asset registers
    - NT4 Invoices
    - NT4 Petty cash records
    - NT4 Receipts
    - NT4 Share certificates
  - NT3 Financial reports [+~]
    - NT4 Balance sheets
    - NT4 Bank account statements
    - NT4 Bank reconciliation statements
    - NT4 Group certificates
    - NT4 Profit and loss statements
  - NT3 Graphs [+~]
    - NT4 Climographs
    - NT4 Column graphs [+]
    - NT4 Histograms
    - NT4 Intermolecular forces
    - NT4 Line graphs [+]
    - NT4 Picture graphs
    - NT4 Pie charts
    - NT4 Play writing
    - NT4 Scatter plots [+]
    - NT4 Semilogarithmic graphs
    - NT4 Ternary graphs
  - NT3 Information reports
  - NT3 Lists [+~]
    - NT4 Catalogues
    - NT4 Reading achievement
  - NT3 Procedural recounts
  - NT3 Procedures [+~]
    - NT4 Directions (Texts)
    - NT4 Instructions
    - NT4 Recipes
  - NT3 Prospectuses
  - NT3 Push (Physical force)
  - NT3 Solar year [+~]
    - NT4 365 day calendar
    - NT4 Gregorian calendar
    - NT4 Lunisolar calendars
- NT2 Literary texts [+~]
  - NT3 Literary descriptions
  - NT3 Literary recounts
  - NT3 Narratives [+~]
    - NT4 Personal narratives
  - NT3 Observations (Texts)
  - NT3 Personal responses
  - NT3 Reviews (Literary texts) [+~]
    - NT4 Book reviews
    - NT4 CD-ROM reviews
    - NT4 Film reviews
    - NT4 Game reviews
    - NT4 Theatre reviews
NT1 Texts [+~]
- NT2 Imaginative texts
- NT2 Interactive texts
- NT2 Media texts [+~]
  - NT3 Advertisements [+~]
    - NT4 Job advertisements
  - NT3 Feature articles [+~]
    - NT4 Sports articles
    - NT4 Travel articles
  - NT3 Interviews
  - NT3 Letters of complaint
  - NT3 Letters to the editor
- NT2 Multimodal texts
- NT2 Quotations
- NT2 Scripts [+~]
  - NT3 Calligraphy
  - NT3 Drama scripts [+~]
    - NT4 Stage directions [+]
  - NT3 Film scripts
  - NT3 Shooting scripts
  - NT3 Transcripts
- NT2 Spoken texts [+~]
  - NT3 Anecdotes
  - NT3 Conferencing
  - NT3 Conversations
  - NT3 Debates [+~]
    - NT4 Parliamentary debates
  - NT3 Discussions
  - NT3 Oral presentations [+~]
    - NT4 Public speaking
- NT2 Visual texts
- NT2 Written texts [+~]
  - NT3 Anecdotes
  - NT3 Books [+~]
    - NT4 Picture books
  - NT3 Manuscripts
NT1 Writing systems [+~]
- NT2 Alphabets (Writing systems) [+~]
  - NT3 Armenian alphabet
  - NT3 Consonants
  - NT3 Greek alphabet
  - NT3 Hungarian runes
  - NT3 Modern Latin alphabet [+~]
    - NT4 Mental illness
  - NT3 Vowels
- NT2 Characters (Writing systems) [+~]
  - NT3 Character strokes [+~]
    - NT4 Dot strokes
    - NT4 Horizontal strokes
    - NT4 Left falling strokes
    - NT4 Right falling strokes
    - NT4 Rising strokes
    - NT4 Turning strokes
    - NT4 Vertical strokes
  - NT3 Character structures
  - NT3 Compound characters
- NT2 Consonant alphabets [+~]
  - NT3 Arabic script
  - NT3 Hebrew script
- NT2 Diacritics [+~]
  - NT3 Accents (Diacritics)
  - NT3 Tone marks
- NT2 Logographic writing systems [+~]
  - NT3 Chinese script [+~]
    - NT4 Chinese characters [+]
    - NT4 Simplified Chinese
  - NT3 Hieroglyphics
  - NT3 Japanese script [+~]
    - NT4 Ateji
    - NT4 Kana [+]
    - NT4 Kanji [+]
    - NT4 Katakana [+]
    - NT4 Romaji
  - NT3 Vietnamese script
- NT2 Syllabaries [+~]
  - NT3 Kana [+~]
    - NT4 Hiragana [+]
    - NT4 Katakana [+]
- NT2 Syllabic alphabets [+~]
  - NT3 Khmer alphabet
  - NT3 Thai alphabet
  - NT3 Tibetan alphabet
- NT2 Symbols [+~]
  - NT3 Ideograms
  - NT3 Logograms
  - NT3 Mathematical notation [+~]
    - NT4 Minus sign
    - NT4 Plus sign
  - NT3 Pictographs [+~]
    - NT4 Pictoglyphs
- NT2 Transliteration [+~]
  - NT3 Ateji
  - NT3 Romanisation systems [+~]
    - NT4 Bopomofo
    - NT4 Pinyin
    - NT4 Romaji
    - NT4 Wade Giles
    - NT4 Yale romanization system
- NT2 Typography [+~]
  - NT3 Fonts
  - NT3 Ligatures

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Date of creation: 01-Feb-2005
modified: 10-Jul-2009

Accepted term: 01-Feb-2005