Techniques

Techniques

1. Noun

   • A noun is a name, place or thing e.g. Sian, Uckfield, door

2. Verb

   • A verb is a doing word e.g. jump, run

3. Adjective

   • Describes a noun e.g. hard

4. Adverb

   • Describes a verb e.g. quickly

5. Simile

   • Is like/as something e.g. cold as ice, cuddly like a teddy bear

6. Metaphor

   • is when something is something e.g. the sun is a killer

7. Personification

   • giving something a human characteristic e.g. the chair jumped

8. Oxymoron

   • is an opposite in the same phrase e.g. hot ice

9. Onomatopoeia

   • is words that sound like sounds e.g. crack

10. Repitition

    • Words that are said more than once e.g. cold weather, cold water

11. Sibilance

    • Words in a phrase that all start with "s" e.g. slithering snake slithered through the swamp

12. Alliteration

    • Words in a phrase that start with the same letter e.g. tiny tiger

13. Rule of 3

    • is 3 words describing something e.g. warm, nice, fluffy blankets

14. Caesura

    • Punctuation in the middle of a line of a poem

15. End stop

    • is a line in a poem that ends with an endstop

16. Enjambment

    • is a line in the poem that carries on to the next line