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Personifying Poetry Perfectly in 6M
This term in 6M, we have been busy with countless different activities, including creating multi-media projects on both the Space Race and Electricity.
However, the subject that produced the highest level of
There are always surprises when listening to the poems,
quality work was in English, throughout our Performance
either in how well they’ve been written or how well they have
Poetry unit. Students used all their skills, tricks and mastery
been performed.
to create lively and imaginative poems using all sorts of clever stuff to do it.
Special mentions must go out to Andrei P., Victor, Maia, Luca, and Sofia for their simile poems.
Figurative language was the theme and for those of you uncertain that means, here are just of a few types we
However, it was in the world of personification that the talent
included within or writing: similes, metaphors, personification
in the class shone through. Poems were awash with imagery,
and hyperbole.
bringing objects alive, and Adelina and Daria were the masters of this.
Mr Rab Morrison
