Content description ACELT1611

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Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes

Elaborations

discussing how figurative language including simile and metaphor can make use of a comparison between different things, for example ‘My love is like a red, red rose’; ‘Tyger!, Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night’; and how by appealing to the imagination, it provides new ways of looking at the world
investigating the qualities of contemporary protest songs, for example those about Indigenous peoples and those about the environment

Modes

Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening

ScOT catalogue terms

Figures of speech
Imagery (Literary devices)
Lyric poetry

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