Poetic Devices
This worksheet helps students match poetic devices (simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole) to their definitions and examples. Ideal for reinforcing figurative language skills, it includes a clear table format and engaging examples. Suitable for primary levels, it supports literacy development through independent or group work.
Learning goals
- We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Linked resources & worksheets
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Resource Year: 5 6
Poetic Devices Match
This game was created to assist upper primary students in consolidating knowledge of Poetic Devices. It is a group game for up to 5 players...
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Resource Year: 3 4 5 6
Poetic Devices Posters
These posters were created to support student learning of poetic devices. They feature a description and a corresponding example in bright a...
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Resource Year: 3 6
Poetry Purrfection Game
Poetry Purrfection is a rotation activity designed to consolidate the understanding of poetic devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration and...
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Resource Year: 5 6 H
Similes & Metaphors Bingo
This bingo game will help students differentiate between similes and metaphors that are used in everyday life. They will match meanings to e...
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Resource Year: 5 6
Simile Metaphor Personification Posters
This set of posters explains the meaning of similes, metaphors and personification and how to use figurative language to make comparisons be...
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Resource Year: 5 6
Take Your Turn - Metaphor, Simile
Students will differentiate between similes and metaphors in this rotation game. This game has been created in a style that allows for you t...
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Resource Year: F 1 2 3 +3
Alliteration Side Show Alley
This colourful side show alley themed poster has been designed to illustrate the meaning of alliteration and provide simple examples.
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Worksheet Year: 4 5 6
Alliteration - Reteach
This worksheet has been created to teach or re-teach the concept of alliteration.
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Worksheet Year: 5 6
Personification
This 4-page worksheet provides a detailed explanation of personification in poetry along with student activities designed to reinforce under...
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Presentation Year: 6
Poetry - Presentation
This presentation will walk your students through year 5 poetry, showing them how to recognise the difference between different forms as wel...
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Resource Year: 6
Poetry - Student Reference Card
This student card is designed to be a personal reference to students during the poetry unit and beyond. It is a part of a larger unit tha...
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Resource Year: 6
Perfecting Personification
In this worksheet, students take a closer look at personification. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to a number of...
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Resource Year: 4 5 6
Finding the Rhythm
In this worksheet, students identify the rhythm in a pair of Robert Louis Stevenson Poems. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces...
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Resource Year: 6
Finding the Rhyme
In this worksheet, students are asked to identify the rhyme scheme in a pair of poems. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces stud...
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Resource Year: 6
Time to Rhyme
In this worksheet, students are asked to come up with three rhymes for a list of words these can be shared in groups or as a class at the en...
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Resource Year: 6
Internal Rhyme
In this worksheet, students look for internal rhyme, including in Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Raven’. It is a part of a larger unit that intro...
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Resource Year: 6
Onomatopoeia
In this worksheet, students lean about onomatopoeia. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to a number of literary devic...
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Resource Year: 6
You're a Poet and Didn't Know it!
In this worksheet, students are asked to write rhyming couplets using given sets of words. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces...
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Resource Year: 5 6
Lean Your Limericks
In this worksheet, students are scaffolded on the way to writing limericks. Encourage your students to share their work after they’re finish...
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Resource Year: 6
575 A Haiku Adventure
In this worksheet, students are scaffolded on the way to writing haiku. Encourage your students to share their work after they’re finished,...
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Unit Plan Year: 6
English Unit: Poetry
This unit introduces students to a number of literary devices, develop their skills in writing poetry, while fostering an interest in its va...