Poetry Techniques

What is alliteration?

• Repeating vowel at start of words.

• Repeating letters

• Repeating consonant sound at the beginning of words.

• Repeating consonant sound at the end of words

A repeating vowel sound is called

Crying time.

What is this an example of?

There are two ways of comparing two unlike things.

What is the following example:

Your smile is sunshine.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• assonance

Change this metaphor to a simile.

Your smile is sunshine.

Answer explanation

Your smile is like sunshine

or

Your smile is as bright as sunshine (it really is you know)

Which of the following is not a simile?

• Your smile is like sunshine.

• I like sunshine.

• Your smile is as bright as sunshine.

• Your smile is as bright as the sun.

The trees danced in the wind.

This is an example of...

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Rhythmn

Rhyme scheme is...

• The pattern of rhymes in a poem.

• I have no idea.

• Like rythmn

• When two words sound similar.

Answer explanation

The pattern the rhyme in a poem follows.

The people along the sand

All turn and look one way

They turn their back on the land

They look at the sea all day

sand and land rhyme (rhyme a)

way and day rhyme (rhyme b)

so the pattern is abab

What is rhyme?

• Words that end in the same sound.

• Words that start with the same sound.

• Words that have the same sound.

• Words that sound the same.

Darkness settles on roofs and walls

but the sea, the sea in the darkness calls

The little waves with their soft white hands

erase the footprints in the sands.

What is this poem an example of?

• Alternate rhyme

• Unusal rhyme

• Rhythm

• Consecutive rhyme

Answer explanation

Consecutive means following one after the other.

aabb is a consecutive rhyme scheme because the rhyming sounds follow one after the other.