Year 7 Poetry Unit

Poetic techniques

 

For you assessment, you must be able to identify poetic techniques with confidence AND be able to explain their effect on the reader (you)

 

You must remember your PEE paragraphs at all times

 

 

In your next lesson (not your LSC lesson) you will be given a test to see if you can remember how to spell each of the following terms AND to see if you can explain them in your own words.  You will also be asked to provide your own example of each. This is not your assessment.  This is to ensure that you are building your knowledge and confidence.

Alliteration  Where two or more words close together start with the same letter or sound

• It was a dark and dreary December morning.

Personification  Where something that is not human does a human action

• The leaves danced in the wind.
• Lights were blinking in the distance.

Pathetic fallacy  Where the weather in a story/poem helps to create a feeling

• Rain creates a sad feeling
• Sun creates a happy feeling
• Thunder creates a scary feeling

Simile  Where something is compared to something else using like (or as…..as) 

• The frost on the trees sparkled like diamonds.

Metaphor  A comparison like simile, but doesn’t use like

• The fog was a thick white blanket covering the town.

Onomatopoeia  A sound word

• The tree crashed to the ground.
• I jumped into the pool with a big splash.