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    Literacy Skills For 16+ Name - Worksheet T Hree Task One

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    LITERACY SKILLS FOR 16+ NAME__sarah

    ingham________________

    WORKSHEET THREE
    TASK ONE

    Poetic Devices!
    How well do you remember the devices below?

    Example Device Meaning/Effect of


    Device
    1) Bang! Bang! Quack! Alliteration The same sounds or the
    same kinds of sounds at
    the beginnings of words or
    stressed syllables.
    2) Love is like a rose. Simile A figure of speech in which
    two unlike things are
    compared
    3) Pregnant clouds are in personification Resemblance of a sound
    the sky. especially of the vowel
    sounds in words
    4) His eyes were deep, Metaphor A figure of speech in which
    black, oily pools. a word or phrase that
    ordinarily designates
    another
    5) She sells sea shells. onomatopoeia The formation or use of
    words such as buzz or
    murmur
    6) Lisa had a piece of Standard English It’s formal
    cheese before she went to
    sleep, to help her dream.
    7) Gimme that brolley, it’s
    gonna rain.

    Alliteration Personification

    Assonance Onomatopoeia

    Simile Metaphor

    Non- standard English


    TASK TWO Create/Research Your Own Poetic Devices!
    Task: Think of your own poetic examples for each of the following poetic devices:
    Alternatively, research examples on the laptop and provide your findings below.

    Alliteration ___Bye, baby bunting,

    Daddy's gone a - hunting,

    Gone to get a rabbit skin

    To wrap baby bunting

    in._________________________________________________________________
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    Personification
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    _Hey diddle, Diddle,

    The cat and the fiddle,

    The cow jumped over the moon;

    The little dog laughed

    To see such sport,

    And the dish ran away with the

    spoon______________________________________________________________
    ____
    Assonance
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    Onomatopoeia
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    Simile
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    Metaphor
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    Non- standard English
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    TASK THREE Internet Poetry Research

    Find a poem that appeals to you and which contains many of the poetic devices named
    above. Copy out a stanza from that poem and highlight and label key poetic devices from it.
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