Saturday, 24 November 2012

2. Poetic Devices - Similes and Metaphors

We have studied a number of war poems now and you lot are brilliant at analysing and explaing poetic devices.  I wonder if you can make your own poetic devices up though?

I challenge you to write a simile or a metaphor to describe the picture below.

Simile - a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as".

Metaphor -  when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison.

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 December 2012 at 11:25

    the explosions are like fireworks shooting into the sky

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  2. Sarah Findlater1 December 2012 at 11:32

    Nice simile Matt!

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  3. Anonymous2 December 2012 at 17:19

    The bullets are LIKE a swam of flies flying through the sky.
    Georgia Ellis

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  4. Anonymous13 December 2012 at 16:35

    the tanks are people argueing back and forth.

    -jordan

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