A dustbin game to help you revise the different types of alliteration and assonance.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Poetry Term Dustbin Sort
This game will help you recognise metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia and personification!
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Poetry Term Definitions
Here are the poetry terms with their definitions for you to revise.
A simile describes something by comparing it with something else using AS or LIKE.
Rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.
A metaphor describes something by saying it IS or WAS something else.
Imagery means a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of your five senses (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight).
A caesura is a pause in the middle of a verse created by punctuation.
Viewpoint is the point of view of the speaker.
Tone means the attitude of the writer as revealed in the choice of vocabulary.
Alliteration means using two or more words/ sounds in a sentence which start with the same consonant letter.
Assonance means using two or more words/ sounds in a sentence which start with the same vowel.
Plosive alliteration means a consonant sound which sounds explosive.
Sibilant alliteration is a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh).
Enjambment means when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning.
A couplet is a pair of lines of verse which rhyme or have the same meter.
Onomatopoeia means a type of word that sounds like the thing it is describing
Rhythm means the pattern of regular or irregular beats.
Repetition means a word which is repeated within a poetical line.
Personification means describing a thing or object by giving it human-like qualities.
To help you with your revision play the poetry term game - you will find the link for this by in the Blog archive (right hand column of Blog) and follow the link.
A simile describes something by comparing it with something else using AS or LIKE.
Rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.
A metaphor describes something by saying it IS or WAS something else.
Imagery means a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of your five senses (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight).
A caesura is a pause in the middle of a verse created by punctuation.
Viewpoint is the point of view of the speaker.
Tone means the attitude of the writer as revealed in the choice of vocabulary.
Alliteration means using two or more words/ sounds in a sentence which start with the same consonant letter.
Assonance means using two or more words/ sounds in a sentence which start with the same vowel.
Plosive alliteration means a consonant sound which sounds explosive.
Sibilant alliteration is a hissing sound like that of (s) or (sh).
Enjambment means when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning.
A couplet is a pair of lines of verse which rhyme or have the same meter.
Onomatopoeia means a type of word that sounds like the thing it is describing
Rhythm means the pattern of regular or irregular beats.
Repetition means a word which is repeated within a poetical line.
Personification means describing a thing or object by giving it human-like qualities.
To help you with your revision play the poetry term game - you will find the link for this by in the Blog archive (right hand column of Blog) and follow the link.
Essay Planning Fishbone Frame
Also on classtools.net is this essay frame actvitity which will help you plan essays in any subject
http://classtools.net/education-games-php/fishbone/
You can print off your finished diagram.
If you need any help or advice post a comment.
http://classtools.net/education-games-php/fishbone/
You can print off your finished diagram.
If you need any help or advice post a comment.
Monday, 14 December 2009
Year 8 Reading Trail Icarus Poems
If you have lost your poems visit...
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Hope this was helpful!
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Hope this was helpful!
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