Daffodils Flashcards
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What is the meaning of a simile?
Simile = comparing two things using the word ‘like or as’ = he was as tall as a tree.
What is the meaning of a metaphor?
Metaphor = comparing something to another thing/saying something is another thing – without using like or as. Example = he blaze a trail through town.
What is the meaning of onomatopoeia?
Words whose sounds imitate what is being described. who signs imitate what is described = buzz, bang, crash, crash, pop.
What is the meaning of alliteration?
Same letter or sounds at the beginning of each word. Example = Sammy, the snake sled silently away.
Entrance paragraph for essay
Wordsworth uses many poetic techniques through poem daffodils. The two that I found most effective were his use of metaphors and similes.
First paragraph of essay.
One poetic technique, which stands out to me is Wordsworth use of metaphor of ‘and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils’. This describes just how happy the poet felt when he thinks about the memory of the daffodils. It also shows just how much he thought about the daffodils and how it lifted his mood when he came across them.
Second paragraph of essay.
Another poetic technique is by wordsworth is simile. simile comparing two things using the word like or as and wordsworth describes the daffodils ‘continuous as the stars that shine’. This describes just how many daffodils he saw. He is saying that there is so many of them that there was as many daffodils of stars he was comparing the daffodils to stars in the sky.
End of essay
Overall, I loved this poem and words worth use of poetic techniques.
What is the meaning of personification.
Giving human qualities to a non human thing Example - the ground swallowed me up
