Fill in the Blanks Poetic Devices Online version Year 3D Activity Week 3 by Maddy Chambers 1 alliteration Similes onomatopoeia personification Characterisation We use a range of poetic devices and languages features when writing poetry . 1 . We use to add sounds in a poem . 2 . are used to say something is like or as something else . 3 . For an I use the same or a similar sounds at the start of words . 4 . describes my characters . 5 . If I give a non - living object human characteristics I'm using .