Literary / Poetic Techniques

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Can you tell your similies from your stanzas, your metaphors from your metonyms? The answer is the example of the technique demonstrated.

The poem I have used is Carol Ann Duffy's "In Mrs Tilscher's Class".

  1. 1

    "with your finger, tracing the route"

  2. 2

    "Brady and Hindley | faded, like the faint, uneasy smudge of a mistake"

  3. 3

    the sky split open into a thunderstorm

  4. 4

    The laugh of a bell swung by a running child

  5. 5

    Sugar paper. Coloured shapes.

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