Poetic Devices

• We are learning to identify authors’ use of vivid, emotive vocabulary, such as metaphors, similes, personification, idioms, imagery and hyperbole.

Curriculum alignment

• Australian Curriculum 1

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Linked resources & worksheets

• Year: 5 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 3 4 5 6
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  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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• Year: 3 6
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  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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• Year: 5 6 H
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  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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• Year: 5 6
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  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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• Year: 5 6
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  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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• Year: F 1 2 3 +3
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  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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• Year: 4 5 6
  Worksheet

  Alliteration - Reteach

  This worksheet has been created to teach or re-teach the concept of alliteration.

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• Year: 3 4 5 6
  Worksheet

  Rhythm

  This worksheet looks at how rhythm is used in texts to emphasise words and syllables. Answer sheet included.

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• Year: 5 6
  Worksheet

  Similes

  This worksheet explains the concept of similes and includes simple exercises to consolidate knowledge. Answer sheet included.

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• Year: 5 6
  Worksheet

  Metaphors

  This worksheet explores the power of metaphors as a literary device. Answer sheet included.

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• Year: 5 6
  Worksheet

  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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• Year: 6
  Presentation

  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 6
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  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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• Year: 4 5 6
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  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 5 6
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  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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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• Year: 6
  Resource

  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...

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