Secondary 1 Literature: Poems

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Alliteration occurs when a consonant sound is repeatedly used at the beginning of words very close to one another.

Example: Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

Metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Metaphors are a way to describe something

Metaphors state that something is something else

Example: Adrain was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.This metaphor compares Adrain to a wall because he kept returning the balls

A simile is the comparison of two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as'

Example: As happy as a lark

Sounds made by people or object being spelt out

Examples: Thump, Sizzle, Tinkling, Gobble, Gulp, Munch, Slurp etc.

Example: Hear the tolling of the bells!

The poet would give objects or other creatures human qualities such as speech, feelings, actions and appearance

The octopus would surely beThe fastest pickpocket in the sea.In a flash he gets all pockets done,Instead of picking them one by one.-Sonja Delander-Explanation: 1) The octopus is personified as a pickpocket.2) The octopus has 8 tentacles (8 hands/arms), resulting itto be able to get all pockets done in a flash.

Example: The oval eye of an needle has the shapeof a human eye -'the eye of the needle'