Creative Text Types, English, Figurative Language, Poetry, Textual Features

Poetic Techniques

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Poetry Rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWwFBGOBAQI

Poetry Glossary: https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/poetry-dictionary-for-kids/

Figurative Language

Sound Techniques

Rhyme / Slant Rhyme

Sometimes rhymes seem ‘forced’: that means, you have to say it too quickly to make it fit the pattern.

Ken Nesbitt, a famous kid’s poet gives advice on how to avoid them here: https://www.poetry4kids.com/lessons/forced-rhymes-and-how-to-avoid-them/

How to Rhyme – a lesson with a famous kid’s poet.

The Raven is a poem by Edgar Allen Poe which has clever uses of sound techniques and this interactive goes through the poem showing us where they are used.