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English / Year 5 / Literature / Examining literature
Curriculum content descriptions
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes (ACELT1611)
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
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Figures of speech, Imagery (Literary devices), Lyric poetry