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Class: .……………………………………
Week 3 – Australian Poetry
What is ‘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
Ragged a tube that carries blood around the body
Fix the spelling mistakes.
The loved of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lane.
Off ordered woods and gardens
Is runing in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blu distance
Broun streams and soft dim skies
I know but donnot share it,
Me love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt countries,
A lande of sweeping plains,
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 big 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 things – NOT using “like” or “as”
Eg: - Your eyes are stars!
PERSONIFICATION – giving a thing human qualities
Eg: - The moon laughed.
ALLITERATION – the same sound used again and again close
Eg: - See Sally Stand by the Sea Shore
ONOMATOPOEIA – sound words
Eg: - WOOOSH! BOOOMM! MEOW! WOOF! MOO!
Write one example of each type.
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Think. Pair. Share.
Work with a friend and describe Australia. Use some poetic devices.