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Flight Writing Techniques Worksheet

Read each question carefully. For the writing activities, use your own ideas and include the literary techniques requested.

Literary Techniques in Flight Writing

1.What technique is used in this sentence? “The little aircraft climbed like a kite tugging at its string.”

Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration

2.In the sentence “The gusts nudged the glider towards the coastline,” identify the words that give the wind a human action.

3.Which techniques can you find in this phrase? Select all that apply: “Whirring wings whisked westward through the warm air.”

Alliteration
Imagery
Metaphor
Personification

4.Choose the phrase that completes this metaphor: “At dusk, the hot-air balloon was … above the paddocks.”

a bright lantern
floating quite slowly
making a soft sound
painted in red and white

Create Flight Descriptions

5.Write one vivid sentence about a tūī flying between trees. Include a simile.

6.Write a sentence that gives an aeroplane a human feeling or action.

7.Write a sentence about something in flight that uses alliteration. Include at least four words beginning with the same sound.

8.Create a metaphor that compares a hang-glider to something else. Write it as a complete descriptive sentence.

A Flight Paragraph

9.Write a paragraph of 4–6 sentences describing a flight from the point of view of a passenger, pilot, or flying animal. Include at least one simile, sensory imagery, and either personification or a metaphor.

10.Label the literary techniques in your paragraph by quoting or describing one example of each technique you used.