ELEMENTS OF A POEM

POETIC DEVICES:

1.PERSONIFICATION

2.IMAGERY

3.SIMILE

PERSONIFICATION:

-attributing human characteristic or qualities such as speech, feelings, action and appearance to non-human things or abstractions

  

EXAMPLES:

“The wind stood up and gave a shout.

He whistled on his finger”

“Kicked the withered leaves about”

“And thumped the branches with his hand”

 

IMAGERY:

-words and phrases used specifically to help the reader to imagine  each of the senses:

SMELL, TOUCH, SIGHT, HEARING and TASTE

 

Examples:

“When the buttercups paved the earth with yellow stars”

“When the bushes are full of the sound of bees”

 

 

SIMILE:

-a form of comparison that asks us to picture one thing as being similar to another.

-it often uses connective such as ‘like’, ‘as’, ‘than’ or verbs such as ‘seems’, ‘resembles’ or ‘appears’

 

Examples:

“Your eyes as blue as blue as the sky”

“The sun is like a golden eye peeping over the horizon”