by melaniewp | Mar 15, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Poetry, Technical Terms
STRUCTUREstanza: like a ‘paragraph’ in a poem. Stanzas are separated by a line break. They may be regular, e.g. the same number of lines per stanza. Or irregular – broken up seemingly at random.regular poem = regular sized stanzas and/or regular line length...
by melaniewp | Mar 14, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
SummaryIn this poem, Armitage explores an incident when he had his ear pierced as a teenager, and his father’s shocked reaction to it. This poem is about coming of age, asserting your own identity, and seems to show he has a bad relationship with his father....
by melaniewp | Mar 5, 2013 | 0 FOR KIDS, KS2, KS3, Literature, Metaphors, Poetry, SATs KS2, Similes, Writing
Kids love anything ridiculous. Help them get to grips with metaphors and similes with this silly game. They draw a picture of the metaphor or simile, which helps them understand that the words put a picture, or ‘image’ in the reader’s head. Left...
