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Poetry is the best words in the best order.
Poetry begins as a lump in the throat.
Poetry is what makes your toes twinkle.
Poetic Devices
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• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
Sight
Smell
Taste
Touch
sound
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
Using
the
senses
Imagery
Rhyme
and
Rhythm
Sound
Effects
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia
Similes
A simile compares two things as similar, using the words like or as.
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Her words cut like...
White as...
Red like...
As hot as...
As cold as...
He ran like...
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...a startled rabbit
...embers in a campfire
...a knife
...drops of blood
...a gussy
...an early Winter’s morning
Create your own similes
Metaphors:
A metaphor is another way of creating an image. A metaphor says
that one object is another:
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The night is...
The sun is...
My bed is...
His laugh is...
A book is...
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...an adventure to be taken
...a warm cocoon
...a dark hot chocolate
...a flower in springtime
...a healer’s touch
Personification
Personification is a special kind of metaphor in which
human characteristics are given to non-human things:
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The wind...
The trees...
The fire...
The door...
The window...
The moon...
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...stretch out their withered arms
...smiled down upon us
...groaned to use its weary joints
...leapt and danced with delight
...whispered my name
...screams its protest
A gentle breeze...
 The cold wind...
 The branches...
 The bright sun...
 The dark night...
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Alliteration
Activity
Using words that repeat the same sound at the
beginning of the word is called alliteration
Nursery
Rhymes
• Baa Baa
Black
Sheep ...
• Little Miss
Muffett ...
Tongue
Twisters
• Peter Piper
picked a
pepper
from the
pepper tree
• She sells
sea shells
by the
seashore
Advertising
• McDonalds
mighty
Mcvalue
Meal
• The
burgers
taste
better...
Using Alliteration
Swarthy smoke-blackened smiths, smudged with soot.
Tongue Twisters
Advertising
Activity: recognising alliteration
Recognising alliteration
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List the examples of alliteration in this
stanza from Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The fair breeze flew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Assonance
The repetition of similar vowels to create sound
effects is called assonance
Breeze
 Ask
 Seaweed
 Far
 Dark
 leave
 Masking
 She
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Use these or other words using assonance to create a 4-5 line poem
Onomatopoeia
When the name of the thing echoes or imitates its sound
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Dry leaves
Small sticks
Bees
Cats
The clock
Cannons
ACTIVITY
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Boom
Buzz
Crunch
Tick tock
Hiss
Crack
Complete the following sentences
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The wind ____________
Her anger ___________
The balloon __________
The trumpet __________
The frightened dog _____
The church bells ______
The rain _____________
The fly ______________
blares
bursts
buzzes
clang
drips
explodes
whimpers
whines
Rhyme:
Rhyme occurs in poetry when similar sounds are repeated at the
ends of lines.
Read the poem: Look out! By Max
Fatchen
 Identify the rhyming words in this poem
 What is the poem about?
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This poem
has the last
word in
each pair
rhyming
This is
called a
rhyming
couplet
It can be
represented
as aabb or
aaaa
ACTIVITY
Create your own rhyming couplet
Other rhyming patterns
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to sea.
Lord Tennyson, Crossing the bar
Stanzas of a poem
can have many
different rhyming
patterns, or no
rhyme at all.
Using the A B
formula, describe the
rhyming pattern of
the stanza above.
Rhythm
The rhythm of a poem is its flow & beat
 It helps to create its mood
 Rhythmic patterns are in chants like
those in skipping & patterning games
 Rhythmic patterns are in song lyrics
 Rhythm is created by the stress we
place on certain words, or syllables,
when we read
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Some poems have a fast beat;
others are slower. How can we
work out the beat of a poem?
We can work out the beat by showing which words are to be stressed,
using the mark / for a heavy beat and the mark x for a soft beat.
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x /
x / x /
• Here’s a poem about my mate
• x x
/ x / x / x /
• On a scale of 10, a 9 he rates.
Each line in this
couplet has four
strong beats. This
creates the rhythm.
References
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Content of slides taken or adapted from:
Guest & Eshuys, 1997. English Elements 2