English / Year 5 / Literature / Examining literature

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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

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking

ScOT terms

Figures of speech, Imagery (Literary devices), Lyric poetry

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