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Rhythm, Rhyme, and Sound Devices
Literature in English · Secondary 3 · The Art of Poetry · 2.º Período

Rhythm, Rhyme, and Sound Devices

Investigate how auditory elements like alliteration, assonance, and meter create musicality and emphasize tone.

MOE Syllabus OutcomesLO2: Understand the ways in which writers' choices of form, structure and language shape meaningsLO1: Respond critically to texts

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Investigate how auditory elements like alliteration, assonance, and meter create musicality and emphasize tone.

Key Questions

  1. How does the rhyme scheme influence the poem's pace?
  2. What is the effect of repeated sounds?
  3. How does the rhythm reflect the poem's subject matter?