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Literary Elements:
Personification,
Imagery, and
Onomatopoeia
Elements used in poetry include personification, or giving human
characteristics to an animal, thing, or idea. Another element is imagery,
or the use of descriptions to create vivid pictures in the reader’s mind.
Also onomatopoeia, or the use of words that imitate the sounds of an
object or action is used in poetry.
Read the poems and answer the questions.
Rabbit Mother sings her babies to sleep.
Tells them not to worry about the rain that splashes down,
Or that fl ash of lighting and sudden crash of thunder.
Her babies safe in a hillside burrow and Rabbit Mother taps her toes.
Waiting out another hurricane.
1. What literary devices does the poem above contain? How do you know?
2. What examples of onomatopoeia are used to describe the hurricane?
Hurricane
Spinning leaves, fl owing water.
All rotating together.
Like water spinning down the drain of an enormous bathtub.
Clockwise in the South. Counterclockwise in the North.
No toys, no bubbles.
Only wind and rain, and the hope that soon all will be safely dried
With the fl uffy towel of sunshine.
3. What literary device does this poem have? How do you know?
At Home: Write a poem describing weather. Use at least
one example of personifi cation, imagery, and onomatopoeia.
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