Tuesday 18 June 2013

The Sound of a Storm

Original poem



The rain is so loud
It's pounding on the rooftop
A crack of thunder
The wind howls so loudly
There's no way to fall asleep

This poem is a tanka about the sounds you hear during a big storm. In line two, there is a personification used with "It's pounding on the rooftop." The rain is not literally pounding on the rooftop, it is so loud that it sounds like it is. On line three, there is an onomatopoeia with "A crack of thunder." There is another personification on line four, with "the wind howls so loudly." The wind isn't literally howling, it just sounds like it is.




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