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Standard 5 · SEA English Language Arts

Poems: Devices, Sound and Imagery

Read ten Trinidad and Tobago poems and find the similes, metaphors, personification, sound words and pictures in words that make them work. Each exercise marks itself as your child goes, explains the answer, and awards stars.

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Naming the device in a lineMatching a line to its deviceSeeing what a simile or metaphor comparesSpotting human actions given to thingsImagery and the five sensesRhyme, lines and stanzasSound words, repeated sounds and repeated wordsExaggeration (hyperbole)What a line or stanza meansMood and how it changes
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Simile or metaphor?
Use your senses
Human actions for things
Lines, stanzas and rhyme
Name the device
Pictures in words at the beach
Sound words and repeats
Name the device, fresh every time
Device and effect
Big exaggerations

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