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Poetic Devices

Poetic Devices. How many can you remember?. Simile. A way of describing something by comparing it to something else, usually by using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’. For example: He was as pale as the moon OR Her hair was like a bird’s nest. Try and think of at least one your own. Metaphor.

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Poetic Devices

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  1. Poetic Devices How many can you remember?

  2. Simile • A way of describing something by comparing it to something else, usually by using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’. • For example: He was as pale as the moon • OR Her hair was like a bird’s nest. • Try and think of at least one your own.

  3. Metaphor • A way of describing something by saying that it is something else to create a vivid image. • For example: His eyes were deep, black oily pools. • Can you think of at least one of your own?

  4. Alliteration • When words start with the same letter. It is often used in poetry to give a nice pattern to a phrase. • For example: Sally’s slipper slipped on a slimy slug. • Write down at least one example of your own.

  5. Assonance • When words share the same vowel sound but the consonants are different. • For example: Lisa had a piece of cheese before she went to sleep, to help her dream. • Which of these below is assonance and why? • ‘Snug as a gun’ • ‘Tired as a mouse’.

  6. Onomatopoeia • A word that sounds like the thing that it is describing. • For example: ‘buzz’ ‘crunch’ ‘bang’ ‘pop’ ‘ding’.

  7. Personification • A special kind of metaphor where you write about something as if it’s a person with thoughts and feelings. • For example: The sea growled hungrily. • Can you think of an example of your own?

  8. Parent and Child relationships • Digging by Seamus Heaney

  9. Between my finger and my thumb • The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. • Under my window, a clean rasping sound • When the spade sinks into the gravelly ground: • My father, digging. I look down • Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds

  10. Bends low, comes up twenty years away • Stopping in rhythm through potato drills • Where he was digging. • The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft • Against the inside knee was levered firmly. • He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep • To scatter new potatoes that we picked • Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

  11. By god, the old man could handle a spade. • Just like his old man. • My grandfather cut more turf in a day • Than any other man on Toner’s bog. • Once I carried him milk in a bottle • Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up • To drink it, then fell to right away • Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods • Over his shoulder, going down and down • For the good turf. Digging

  12. The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap • Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge • Through living roots awaken in my head. • But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. • Between my finger and my thumb • The squat pen rests. • I’ll dig with it.

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