Rhetorical Devices
This set of posters explains rhetorical devices and the specific roles irony, metaphor, parody and hyperbole play in developing meaning.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
Curriculum alignment
AC9E6LA08
9
Identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole
ACELA1542
8.4
Understand how rhetorical devices are used to persuade and how different layers of meaning are developed through the use of metaphor, irony and parody
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.