Poetic Devices - KS3

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison between things using "like" or "as".

• A comparison between two very similar things, like lions and tigers.

• A comparison where things are given human characteristics even when they are not alive.

• A comparison between two unlike things, without using words "like" or "as". Often one thing is said to be another thing.

How is a metaphor different to a simile?

What is this an example of? “The lazy lady laughed loudly.”

• sibilance

• assonance

• alliteration

• repetition

What is the name of the poetic device that stops you in the middle of a line of poetry?

• caesura

• onomatopoeia

• enjambment

• metaphor

Writers of novels write in paragraphs. What is the name of the “paragraphs” poets use? (the sections in a poem) _______________

What is this an example of? “Fly, cry, why, high.”

• triplet

• alliteration

• caesura

• rhyme

• rhythm

“His eyes were cold like ice.” What is this an example of?

• a chat-up line

• a metaphor

• personification

• simile

__________________ is when poets give human characteristics to things that aren’t alive?

Who is the speaker in a poem? How are they different from the poet?

Write the definition and an example of onomatopoeia.