A six-part series exploring the fundamental poetic devices of simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. Students will be invited into the world of six poets to see ...

For thousands of years, humans have been creating stories — and for just as long, they’ve been coming up with words to describe all the tools and techniques that make a story work. But these “literary ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

Poetic devices like alliteration can heighten readers' aesthetic experiences and enhance poets' recall of their epic pieces. The effects of such devices on memory for and appreciation of poetry are ...

https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1353.2016.2713 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15699/jbl.1353.2016.2713 Copy URL Two peculiar alternations of grammatical form appear ...

Onomatopoeia is when a word sounds like what it means. Take chef here, he needs to wash up. But instead he is going to smash all the crockery in his kitchen. SMASH against the ceiling! That is ...

Exploring the fundamental poetic devices of simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and imagery. ABC iview Home Watch all your favourite ABC programs on ABC iview. More from ABC ...