1. Poetry Poetry is the best words in the best order.
Poetry begins as a lump in the throat.
Poetry is what makes your toes twinkle.
Poetry

2. Poetic Devices Using the senses Sight Smell Taste Touch sound Imagery
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Sound Effects
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme and Rhythm
Rhyme
Rhythm

3. Similes A simile compares two things as similar, using the words like or as.
Her words cut like...
White as...
Red like...
As hot as...
As cold as...
He ran like...
...a startled rabbit
...embers in a campfire
...a knife
...drops of blood
...a gussy
...an early Winter’s morning
Activity

4. Create your own similes
As cold as...
Beautiful, like...
As alert as...
Boldly, like...

6. Touch
Feel
Texture

7. Metaphors: A metaphor is another way of creating an image
Metaphors: A metaphor is another way of creating an image. A metaphor says that one object is another:
The night is...
The sun is...
My bed is...
His laugh is...
A book is...
...an adventure to be taken
...a warm cocoon
...a dark hot chocolate
...a flower in springtime
...a healer’s touch

8. The beach The beach is a quarter of golden fruit, a soft ripe melon
sliced to a half-moon curve,
having a thick green rind
of jungle growth;
and the sea devours it
with its sharp,
sharp white teeth.
William Hart-Smith

9. Personification Personification is a special kind of metaphor in which human characteristics are given to non-human things:
The wind...
The trees...
The fire...
The door...
The window...
The moon...
...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
Activity

10. Use personification to create imagery about these things:
A gentle breeze...
The cold wind...
The branches...
The bright sun...
The dark night...

11. Alliteration Using words that repeat the same sound at the beginning of the word is called alliteration
Activity
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...

12. Using Alliteration Swarthy smoke-blackened smiths, smudged with soot.
Write your own tongue twister
Hint: start with a name (perhaps your own?)
What other words start with the beginning letter?
Write your own advertising jingle, using alliteration.
Hint: what product will you sell?
What other words start with the beginning letter?
Tongue Twisters
Advertising
Activity: recognising alliteration

13. Recognising alliteration
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.

14. Assonance The repetition of similar vowels to create sound effects is called assonance
Breeze
Ask
Seaweed
Far
Dark
leave
Masking
She
Use these or other words using assonance to create a 4-5 line poem

15. Onomatopoeia When the name of the thing echoes or imitates its sound
Dry leaves
Small sticks
Bees
Cats
The clock
Cannons
Boom
Buzz
Crunch
Tick tock
Hiss
Crack
ACTIVITY

16. Complete the following sentences
blares
bursts
buzzes
clang
drips
explodes
whimpers
whines
The wind ____________
Her anger ___________
The balloon __________
The trumpet __________
The frightened dog _____
The church bells ______
The rain _____________
The fly ______________

17. 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?
This poem has the last word in each pair rhyming
This is called a rhyming couplet
It can be represented as aabb or aaaa

18. References
Content of slides taken or adapted from: Guest & Eshuys, English Elements 2