Poetry Devices Power Point By Sam

Poetry Devices
By Samantha Thompson

Simile: Is Where you compare two objects using the words ‘As’ or ‘Like’
E.G As small as a green pea. Slow like a broken down car.

Personification: Means you are giving an object or animal the ability to do something that only humans can do
E.g.: my shirt is sticking to me like a three year old.

Metaphor: A metaphor is giving something a name it is not
E.g. : The piece of bright yellow sunshine dived into the bowl of blue sky
Which means I'm saying the Yellow bird dived into the bird bath.

Alliteration: is where you use the same letter commonly in a sentence.
E.g.: Windy Wellington Has Wallowing Whaling Waves in the sea.

Repetition: Means to Re-use a word many times
E.g.: The white horse is free, the white horse is wild , The white horse eats grass