Poetry Techniques

Change this metaphor to a simile.

Answer explanation

Your smile is like sunshine

or

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

The trees danced in the wind.

This is an example of...

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Rhythmn

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.

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

What is the rhyme scheme?

• consecutive rhyme

• rhyme time

• alternate rhyme

• no idea

Answer explanation

Alternate rhyme is when each line alternates between the rhyming sounds.

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.

when a word or phrase for one thing is used to refer to another (to suggest they are similar)

• metaphor

• personification

• adjective

• imagery

A figure of speech in which one thing is described in the terms of another.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Answer explanation

e.g. Charioteers were struck dumb when they saw that fire (Extract from The Iliad, by Homer)

The attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Answer explanation

e.g. I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze (‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’, by Randall Jarrell)

A figure of speech in which one thing is explicitly likened to another

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Answer explanation

e.g. The coach’s soft wingbeat – as light / And straight as a dove’s flight. (‘Platform One’, by Ted Hughes)