Year 7 Poetry Techniques

What technique am I?

When you compare 2 things using 'is'.

• metaphor

• rhyme

• simile

• personification

What technique am I?

The way a poem sounds – the mood of the poem being created.

• simile

• repetition

• assonance

• tone

What technique am I?

When two or more words have the same sound as each other.

• alliteration

• rhyme

• symbolism

• metaphor

What technique am I?

When there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry so it runs onto the next one.

• enjambment

• personificaton

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

What technique am I?

When language is used to paint a picture in readers' minds.

• imagery

• repetition

• simile

• tone

Which techniques make a comparison?

• rhyme

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

What technique am I?

Repeated vowel sounds.

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• tone

What technique am I?

When an object/motif is used to say something more meaningful about something else.

• simile

• enjambment

• rhyme

• symbolism

What technique am I?

When you give a non-human object human qualities.

• repetition

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

What technique am I?

When you compare 2 things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• metaphor

• imagery

• symbolism

• simile