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Poetry Word Bank

Explore poetry terms and collect vivid words. Then try using poetic techniques in your own lines. Technique word bank: simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia.

Poetry techniques

Read each description, then identify the technique shown in the example. Use the technique word bank in the instructions.

1.Which technique is used in “The rain tapped the roof like tiny fingers”?

2.Which technique appears in “The playground was a buzzing beehive”?

3.Which technique is used in “The wind raced through the flax”?

4.Which technique is used in “Warm cinnamon scented the kitchen as a crisp pastry crunched”?

Gather vivid words

Collect words that could help a reader imagine a place, person, or moment.

5.Choose all the words that describe something you could experience through your senses: fragrant, jagged, purple, thunderous, velvety, curious, sour, graceful.

fragrant
jagged
purple
thunderous
velvety
curious
sour
graceful

6.Add one adjective to each blank to make the details more vivid: “The kitchen filled with the smell of bread.”

7.Choose three strong action verbs from this collection that could bring a poem to life: drifted, clattered, glimmered, hurried, bloomed, mumbled, waited, tumbled.

Try the techniques

Write your own lines. There is no single correct response; use the prompts to spark an idea.

8.Write a simile that compares a memorable moment to something else. Use “like” or “as”.

9.Write a line that gives a human action or feeling to a non-human feature of a home or neighbourhood.

10.Write one sentence with imagery that includes at least two sensory details.

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