Highlighted Seaside Senses Poem

Metaphors

This is where we talk about something as if it IS something else, or as if it DOES something, when really it is part of our imaginative description.

• Explode with an almighty roar : the waves don’t ACTUALLY explode or roar, but the poem suggests that they do.
• Smell of freedom : Freedom doesn’t actually smell, but the poem talks about it like it does.

Alliteration

This is when words are used beginning with the same initial letter.

• ..bounce on the bed fall to the floor sweet smell

Personification

This is when something is described as if it were human, when it is not ie, it is given human characteristics or behaviour.

• the waves jumping and tumbling with childish excitement they playfully bound
• warm sand creeps

Assonance

This is another type of alliteration, but is less noticeable as it is the repeat of vowel sounds within words.

• feel the warm sand as it creeps
• rosy tan glows
• sweet smell of freedom

Word Play

Using a phrase with 2 different meanings

bounce on the bed fall on the floor (I am of course referring to the phrases ‘sea bed’, and the ‘floor of the ocean’, but we often talk of children bouncing on the bed and falling to the floor so this double meaning to the phrases makes the image more descriptive. It also therefore again makes us think of the waves’ behaviour as human.)

Consonance

Another type of alliteration, where the consonant sounds are repeated, not just at the beginning of a word.

• Seaside Senses
• Jumping and tumbling
• sand as it creeps through your toes
• taste the salt water