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Imagery and Personification. AKA: Poetic devices that make your poetry more interesting!. Imagery. An image is language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled . Using imagery in poetry is just like using it in your metacognitive reading strategies!
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Imagery and Personification AKA: Poetic devices that make your poetry more interesting!
Imagery • An image is language that describes something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. • Using imagery in poetry is just like using it in your metacognitive reading strategies! • And you probably use it a lot more than you think. For example...
Sight • The sun’s beams shimmered and danced on the ocean’s gentle waves.
Smell • The fragrant roses drifted through the room like elusive ghosts.
Sound • Although they could not see outside the cabin, they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their door.
Taste • The cheesecake’s exquisite flavor traveled from his tongue to his spine.
Touch • The icy breeze gently brushed against the hair on her neck, and goose-bumps shortly followed.
Imagery • Why might imagery be used in poetry? • Questions?
PERSONFICATION • Personification is giving human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.
Personification: An example • The window winked at me. • The verb, wink, is a human action. • A window is an inanimate object. • There’s a good example of personification!
Personification: An example • MY COMPUTER HATES ME!!!
Personification: An example • Those shoes are speaking to me...
Why might imagery and personification make poetry more interesting? • Questions?
Personification • Why might personification be used in poetry? • Questions?
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