Poetic Devices 1
The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
The babies were so loud they made my ears burst!
Hyperbole
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
The bee goes BUZZ.
What is onomatopoeia?
I rather eat dirt than the school lunch.
hyperbole
A figure of speech involving a comparison using like or as.
What is a Simile?
Whoosh!
Onomatopoeia
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
When I fell down the stairs, we all heard bing, bang boom, crack..
Onomatopoeia.
YOU ARE A TOYYYYYYY - Woody
This is an example of?
Metaphor
Tilly the tiger tried to tie a tie.
Alliteration.
Sue saw sharks swim in the sea.
Alliteration.
The flag waved in the breeze.
This is an example of...
Personification
Betty Botter bought some butter. "But", she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter then without my batter bitter I might bake with better butter!"
What is this?
Alliteration
white clouds gently swirled across the pale blue sky as if it were fish in a river
Simile
She said I looked like a chimpanzee!
This is an example of...
Simile
The cash register popped open with a heart warming CA-CHING!
Onomatopoeia.