Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and punsElaborationsdefining spoonerisms, neologisms and puns and exploring how they are used by authors to create a sense of ...
Understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play in poetry and other literary texts, for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns
Elaborations
defining spoonerisms, neologisms and puns and exploring how they are used by authors to create a sense of freshness, originality and playfulness (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
discussing poetic language, including unusual adjectival use and how it engages us emotionally and brings to life the poetâs subject matter, for example âHe grasps the crag with crooked handsâ (Alfred, Lord Tennyson); âWee ... timârous beastieâ (Robert Burns) (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)
