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Week 3 – Australian Poetry
What is the poem ‘My country’ about?
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Match A with B.
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Coppice out of the sun
Shaded brown from lots of sun
Vein a woodland
Otherwise to have a rough edge
Sunburnt different
Sweeping wide
Ragged a tube that carries blood around the body
Define these words.
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Fix the mistakes.
The loved of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lane.
Off ordered woods and gardens
Is run in your veins,
Strong love of distance grey-blue
Broun streams and soft dim skies
I know but do share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt countries,
A land of plains sweeping,
Of ragged mountainn ranges,
Of droughts and floodings rains.
I loove her far horizons,
I love here jewel-sea,
Hers beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land four me!
2. Name: ……………………………………….
Class: ……………………………………….
These are some devices used in poetry.
HYPERBOLE – a large exaggeration
Eg: - Your eyes are as bright as the stars!
SIMILE – A comparison between two objects using “like” or “as”
Eg: - Your eyes are like stars
METAPHOR – A comparison between two objects – NOT using “like” or “as”
Eg: - Your eyes are stars!
PERSONIFICATION – giving an inhuman thing human qualities
Eg: - The stars are envious of your eyes!
ALLITERATION – repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more
neighbouring words
Eg: - See Sally Stand by the Sea Shore
ONOMATOPOEIA – words that sound like their meaning
Eg: - WOOOSH! The stars penetrate the earth’s atmosphere.
Write an example of each device.
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Think. Pair. Share.
Work with a partner and choose one sentence to describe Australia. Use poetic
devices.