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Imagery and Personification

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

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  1. Imagery and Personification AKA: Poetic devices that make your poetry more interesting!

  2. 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...

  3. Sight • The sun’s beams shimmered and danced on the ocean’s gentle waves.

  4. Smell • The fragrant roses drifted through the room like elusive ghosts.

  5. Sound • Although they could not see outside the cabin, they could hear the eerie tapping, tapping, tapping, of his knife upon their door.

  6. Taste • The cheesecake’s exquisite flavor traveled from his tongue to his spine.

  7. Touch • The icy breeze gently brushed against the hair on her neck, and goose-bumps shortly followed.

  8. Imagery • Why might imagery be used in poetry? • Questions?

  9. PERSONFICATION • Personification is giving human qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.

  10. 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!

  11. Personification: An example • MY COMPUTER HATES ME!!!

  12. Personification: An example • Those shoes are speaking to me...

  13. Why might imagery and personification make poetry more interesting? • Questions?

  14. Personification • Why might personification be used in poetry? • Questions?

  15. Let’s see your knowledge and how you use it... • Stations! • And The Big Game!

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