Poetic Techniques Match the poetic technique to its defi nition. 1. Simile
A. The repetition of the same vowel sounds in words that are close together (also called internal rhyme); for example: ‘and dances with the daff odils’ (‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’)
2. Imagery
B. Giving human qualities to a non-human object (e.g. machine, animal, idea, thing); for example: ‘Let the aeroplanes circle moaning overhead’ (‘Funeral Blues’)
3. Metaphor
C. The beat of the poem; for example: ‘Poor Grandmamma was terrifi ed,/“He’s going to eat me up!” she cried./And she was absolutely right./He ate her up in one big bite.’ (‘Little Red Riding Hood’)
4. Personifi cation
D. Comparing things without using the words ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘than’; for example: ‘A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters’ (‘Timothy Winters’)
5. Assonance
E. A repeated line recurring in a poem; for example: ‘It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.’ (‘She Moved Through the Fair’)
6. Refrain
F. The same sound repeated in the end words of lines; for example: ‘The Shadows where the Mewlips dwell/Are dark and wet as ink,/And slow and softly rings their bell,/As in the slime you sink.’ (‘The Mewlips’)
7. Rhythm
G. Comparing two things using the words ‘like’, ‘as’ or ‘than’; for example: ‘Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters’ (‘Timothy Winters’)
8. Rhyme
H. Descriptions in poems that help to make a picture in the reader’s mind, appealing to their senses; for example: ‘Beetle on its black back, rocking in the lunchtime sun’ (‘Back in the Playground Blues’)
