Poetic Techniques Flashcards
(28 cards)
“The bees buzzed busily around the bushes.”
Alliteration
“The wind whistled quietly among the trees.”
Personification
“The guns rattled and the bombs rocked the earth with a boom.”
Onomatopoeia
“There was a mountain of ice-cream on her plate.”
Metaphor
“The boy was like a tank on the football pitch.”
Simile
“The more that you read
The more things you will know
The more you learn
The more places you’ll go!”
Rhyme
“I will read on a boat
I will read on a goat.
I will read on a train
I read in the rain.”
Rhyming couplets
“Jumping jolly jelly beans.”
Alliteration
“Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
Alliteration
“The stars winked at me in the night”
Personification
“The flowers swayed a slow waltz in the wind.”
Personification
“The wheel barrow groaned and sighed under the weight of the logs.”
Personification
“Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.”
Simile
“He had teeth like daggers and a smile like death.”
Simile
“He was a walking dictionary.”
Metaphor
“She’s a sunbeam, brightening our days.”
Metaphor
“Life is a journey.”
Metaphor
Repeating vowel sounds in a sentence is called ______________.
Assonance
The rain in spain falls mainly in the plains.
Assonance
How now brown cow?
Assonance
A word that mimics the sound it makes.
Onomatopoeia
The car door banged. Slam!
Onomatopoeia
Tick tock little clock
Onomatopoeia
Comparing two things by saying one thing is another. It cannot literally be true.
Metaphor
