Part of an introduction to poetry unit I've used with keystage 3 students

2. Personification
Simile Metaphor
Imagery
Aural imagery
•Alliteration Symbol
•Assonance
•Onomatopoeia

3. Alliteration is the repetition
of initial sounds in
neighbouring words

4. It’s do or die
Safe and sound
It’s now or never
The sweet smell of success
Swing low sweet chariot

5. It’s do or die
Safe and sound
It’s now or never
The sweet smell of success
Swing low sweet chariot

7. The tutor who tooted a flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?

8. Wise Words Ward Off Wrath
Wise Words ward off wrath, whilst foolish words fuel the
fires of feud.
Pleasant words are persuasive and pave the path for peace.
Harsh words hurt and harbor hatred.
Harsh words hatch feuds.
Soft words sow soothing seeds.
Unkind words kindle the fires of rage.
Vulgar comments violate and vilify.
Gossips strips and tears friends apart.
Insulting words instigate insurrection and infighting.
Nagging negates, complicates and conflagrates:
Zip your mouth when your mind is not in a Good gear.

9. Ozymandias – Percy Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
quot;My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!quot;
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

10. Ozymandias – Percy Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
quot;My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!quot;
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'