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Saturday, 3 September 2011

Poetry Techniques

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Capitalisation  Capital letters

Repetition  Repeated words, sentences, verses

Alliteration  Repeated sounds at the start of words eg. Pink Pig

First line/ last line  The impression they make

Title  May give a clue about the poem


Vocabulary  The words used

Imagery  simile, metaphor, personification

Punctuation  Any unusual punctuation?

Enjambement  a line runs over to the next one

Rhythm/ rhyme  What rhyme scheme, if any?

Structure  Stanzas







Other techniques to look out for….


Onomatopoeia  sounds eg. bang, boom, whizz

Simile  something is like something else

Metaphor  something is something else

Personification  giving an object human qualities

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