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LESSON OBJECTIVES

  • By the end of this lesson you should be able to: Appreciate that poets play with language and choose words not only for their meaning, but also for their sounds and rhythm.
  • Examine how sound help a poet to convey emotion and mood that support the meaning of a poem.
  • Identify sound devices (e.g., assonance, consonance and alliteration) in poetry and attempt to incorporate them into their own writing.

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