Topic 5 (session A) - Sound > Session overview

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In this topic we will explore how sound patterns contribute to the meaning and effects of poems. We will look at alliteration, assonance and rhyme, and also how particular sounds and groups of sounds 'mimic' phenomena in the world to create effects like onomatopoeia. But to be able to do this we will first need to be clear about the relationship between spelling and sounds in English. So we will look at this before exploring examples of sound patterns in poetry.

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