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

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

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

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

Touch Feel Texture

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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 ______________

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

References Content of slides taken or adapted from: Guest & Eshuys, 1997. English Elements 2