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Students can manipulate words or phrases on a virtual refrigerator to write poems. Poems can be saved. Poems written by other students can also be read.

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You might remember this famous Shakespeare poetry from school. You might also remember your literature teacher telling you about the different figurative languages and persuasive writing techniques. Personification is one of them, and is often used in poetry for bringing inanimate objects to life. Personification is a literary device used in writing. We use it to relate a life-less object with human characteristics. This is because it adds life to the content, and helps convey concepts in a fun way. The phrase, "The wind howled, and the trees chirped" is an example of personification. Here you can see that wind and tree

Creative writing is a bit different from other forms of writing i.e., technical and academic. As the name suggests, it demands a writer to become a little more creative. Further, the sole purpose of this sort of writing is entertainment. The creative writing style varies, depending on the type of entertainment. e.g., In storytelling, the writer amuses people by creating fiction or real-life stories. Poetry is another form of creative writing that seems attractive due to its rhythmic flow and word choice. Other types of creative writing include movies, songs, speeches, plays, Memoirs, and personal essays. Learning any one of these is an interesting as well as time-consuming process.