Poetic Element Scavenger Hunt

 

Use this with Sketches from a Spy Tree

By Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

Illustrated By Andrew Glass

 

In pairs find examples of each of these elements, then create one of your own!

 

POETIC ELEMENT                                                Example from the Text:                                        Create one of your own:

Simile

Compares something using like or as

 

   
Metaphor

Compares something without like or as

 

   
Personification

assigns human traits to something that's not

 

   
Onomatopoeia

creates a word to represent a sound

 

   
Apostrophe Poem

Speaks to something that can't talk back

 

   
Rhyme

a repetition of sound at the end of a word

 

   
Alliteration

a repetition of sound at the beginning of words

 

 

   

©2005 Tracie Vaughn Zimmer