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“Figurative Language
Tricks and Techniques”
Using
metaphors, similes, imagery,
idioms, hyperbole and personification to
describe things
Flowery
“It’s
Language
raining cats and dogs!”
“The
sky opened up and cried when it
found out you left me.”
Precise, realistic
“It
language
is raining out. “
“I was sad when you left.”
Two
lines that end in the same sound
(does not need to be spelled the same!)
Hickory
Dickory DockThe mouse ran up the clock.
Think: where
are your internal organs?
This
rhyme is inside the middle of one
line of poetry
Hickory
Faded
Dickory Dock,
jaded jazz floats out of a cafe
Plan
for rhyme- might be couplets (aabbcc)
Or another plan like a limerick:
There was a young lady of Niger A
Who smiled as she rode on the back of a tiger A
They returned from a ride B
With the lady inside B
And a smile on the face of the tiger A
(anonymous)
“No
rules just right”
No rhymes at the end, sounds and looks
more like speech
You can’t order a poem
like you order a taco
Walk up to the counter and say “I’ll take
two”
and get them handed back to you
on a shiny plate.
(Naomi Shihab Nye)
“…The road was a ribbon
of moonlight…”
(Alfred Noyes)
Or
Vivid
picture in
one’s mind
from
powerful
words
“So much depends
upon
The red wheelbarrow
Glazed with rainwater
Beside
The white chickens”
(william carlos williams)
Giving
non-human objects human-like
personality traits or actions
“…and then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils”
Also:
“Rikki –Tikki-Tavi” (Rudyard Kipling)
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
(William Wordsworth)
SimiLe
Metaphor
Comparing
Comparing
two
things using LIKE or
AS
two
things WITHOUT
using like or as”
“moon
was a ghostly
galleon” (A. Noyes)
“hair
like moldy hay”
(A. Noyes)
“You
are my sunshine,
my only sunshine”
When
the EXACT sound is repeated in
the beginning of two words
(spelling does not matter)
“dazzling diamonds”
Prickly Pear
When
a consonant is repeated in a line of
words
She sells seashells down by the seashore
The sailor sings of ropes and things
When
vowel sounds are repeated
(not always about the letter because in
English we pronounce vowels many
different ways!)
“daylight
Lucy
Liu
faded gracefully away”
When
whole words or phrases are
repeated
“…Tap, tap, tapping
on my chamber door”
(Edgar Allen Poe)
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish
(Dr. Seuss)
Words
that mimic what they represent
Tap, knock, boom, crash, whisper, zip, buzz,
hum…
(Story
time!)
(The only word in the English language without a
vowel…!)
The
measured beat of poetry
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to
me
or
There once was a student named Andy (3)
Who said “Oh no, I would never eat candy!” (3)
He refused to eat sweets (2)
On his phone he would tweet (2)
I feel fine and my teeth are just dandy! (3)
Now
you will be able to construct poems
of great magnificence and charm.
Take
care of your toolbox!