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Content description VCELT316

English / Level 5 / Literature / Examining literature
Content description
Understand, interpret and experiment with sound devices and imagery, including simile, metaphor and personification, in narratives, shape poetry, songs, anthems and odes
Elaborations
  1. 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
  2. investigating the qualities of contemporary protest songs, for example those about Indigenous peoples and those about the environment
Code
VCELT316
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