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Poetry Unit → Terms → Questions, Journals, and Assignments for Poems Studied in Class → Poetry Book Assignment - Major Project
POETRY TOPICS Figurative Language Assignment / Poetry & Autobiographia / Progress / Mirror & How Everything Happens Now Elizabeth / The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald / Out, Out / Mississippi Winter IV / What Ugly Is Lake of Bays / A Prairie Museum / A Mosquito in the Cabin / Sporting Words Poetry Book / Examples of Poems for Tests
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND SOUND DEVICES ASSIGNMENT In-Class Assignment: Place the following examples (1 - 70) under the headings below. Use each example can be used only once. If the example fits into two different categories, write the numbers at the top each Figurative Language Page and choose the best example when finished. When finished you should have 10 examples underneath each heading. MA A SHOP! (Metaphor, Assonance, Alliteration, Simile, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Personification) Metaphor: an implied comparison between two unlike things. Like or As are not used Assonance: the close repetition of the same vowel sounds between different letters Alliteration: the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words close together or syllables Simile: a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two things usually though of as being unlike except in one unusal way and using the words like or as Hyperbole: an overexaggeration to show intensity of feeling Onomatopoeia: a figure of speech in which words are used that suggest or imitate the sound of the action, object or noise they stand for Personification: a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea, or an object is given qualities of a human being
1. That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea 2. Puny puma pit their skills against zebras. 3. The rusty spigot sputters 4. The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it after a long day. 5. The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the grocery store shelves. 6. I nearly died laughing 7. The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves. 8. As the teacher entered the room she muttered under her breath, "This class is like a three-ring circus!" 9. She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need A man to match the mountains and the sea The friendly welcome of the wayside well 10. The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner. 11. I was hopping mad 12. Pretty Polly picked pears for preserves. 13. The sergeant asked him to bomb the lawn with hotpots 14. With narrow moon-lit slips of silver cloud 15. The giant’s steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack. 16. The fluorescent light was the sun during our test. 17. I feel like a limp dishrag. 18. He who laughs last laughs first 19. The video camera observed the whole scene. 20. Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came. 21. I tried a thousand times 22. The buzzing of innumerable bees 23. Handsome Harry hired hundreds of hippos for Hanukkah. 24. The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!" 25. He had tonnes of money. 26. And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side 27. No one invites Harold to parties because he’s a wet blanket. 28. Those girls are like two peas in a pod. 29. The road was a ribbon of moonlight. 30. The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the dog’s bath. 31. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell. Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride 32. He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes. 33. She was as bright as a button. 34. Find fifteen friendly friars. 35. He's a wizard with the ball. 36. She worked her fingers to the bone. 37. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads at the walkers. 38. Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
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The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
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Slow things are beautiful: 41. I could sleep for a year. 42. Squeak goes the rat 43. Find a bin to put it in 44. This box weighs a ton. 45. Shelly Sherman shivered in a sheer, short, shirt 46. The deep churned. Something had happened down in the dim, foggy-green depths 47. They were swamped with orders. 48. The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers. 49. I've told you a million times not to exaggerate. 50. It was as flat as a pancake 51. Your mother is so small she does chin-ups on the curb. 52. Sue whispered the secret to her friend. 53. A solitary cloud goes off calmly alone. 54. Splish! Splash! I was taking a bath. 55. He lives on carrots, leeks, and hay 56. Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, Leader beloved, and long he ruled In fame with all folk since his father had gone 57. We look at each other and never get bored 58. He was as strong as a lion 59. The snow whispered as it fell to the ground during the early morning hours. 60. That junction's always a bottleneck 61. The china danced on the shelves during the earthquake. 62. It shot out like a bullet 63. By the end of the race he was gasping for breath. 64. The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard. 65. Try to light the fire 66. The town where I grew up is so isolated it makes ghost towns look popular 67. The chaffinch and the cuckoo are common birds in Britain.
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The sun is a big yellow duster 69. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail 70. My heart is like a singing bird
Poetry and Autobiographia, Page 1&3
Journal Entry: Recall what it was like to be a child. Where did you live? What was your neighborhood like? Who were your friends? What did you do together (games, etc…) Include a small map of where you lived and your friends.
Questions: 1. Illustrate a scene from one of the two poems that were read. 2. Write a poem about one important incident that happened to you when you were young.
Progress, Page 2
Activity: The first person in the group is to write the word PROGRESS on a piece of paper. This person passes the paper to the next person, who adds a word or diagram that shows progress. All members of the group watch what their team adds. Work quickly and don’t repeat what others have written.
Questions: 1. What is the earth poet doing? 2. What do you think urban people are doing? 3. Why do you think the author put the title of the poem in “quotation marks”? 4. What do you think the structure of the poem represents?
Assignment: Using leads, markers, or crayons, translate the feeling of the poem into colors and shapes. Avoid literal images. One section of the paper can represent the first part of the poem, up to “touching the landscape”. The other section can represent the last section. Mirror and How Everything Happens, Page 4&5
Activity: Experiment with one or two word concrete poems. Using one of these words UNEVEN, ROLLER COSTER, or CONFLICT, write these words in a poem to convey their meaning.
Assignment: Create word images for FIVE of the words below. Example: U P B M Y
Tired Heavy Uphill Forest Sunshine Lion Frozen Strong Locked Underwater Thunder Snow Battle Table Submarine Crying Sandwich Music Autumn Hamburger
Now Elizabeth, Page 24
Questions: 1. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? 2. Give all the examples of Internal Rhyme in the Poem. 3. Discuss the areas in the poem where there were breakdowns in Rhythm. STANZA NUMBER / WORD or PHRASE
Journal Imagine that you are Elizabeth’s Mother. Write a letter to a Columnist seeking advice on how to get Elizabeth to clean up her room. Have a partner reply to your letter.
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The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald, Page 28
Journal Entry:
Questions: 1. Why do you think Lightfoot choose this subject? 2. Why do you think he wrote this as a song? 3. How is the poetic account different from a non-fiction account? 4. Lightfoot was not obviously not aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald? Did he do a good job of representing what the storm would have been like and how the sailors felt? Explain.
Out, Out –, Page 32
Questions: 1. Imagine what the boy, his sister, and the doctor are thinking? How would the poem be different if Frost told what they think? 2. Find examples of figurative language (see vocab sheet) in the poem.
Writing Assignment: Rewrite the poem from a different point of view = Boy, Sister, or Doctor
Mississippi Winter IV, Page 42
Journal Entry: Should boys and girls be raised by different rules. If yes, what rules should be different and why. If no, what rules should be used and why.
Questions: 1. What does “a whistling woman and a crowing hen would surely come to no good end” mean? 2. What is odd about a crowing hen? 3. Have attitude towards women changed since this poem was written? If so, How?
What ugly is, Page 50
Journal Entry: What do the words UGLY and BEAUTIFUL mean. Use examples, definitions, and comparisons.
Questions: 1. Why do you think the poet wrote this poem? 2. What effects might he have wanted to have on readers? 3. What does the last stanza say?
Representing Assignment: Create a word collage showing the differences between ugly and beautiful in the way Priest describes. BACK TO TOP
Lake of Bays, Page 57
Journal Entry: Think of a time in which you ever observed someone daring someone else? What happened? Why might people dare others? How do you feel if you are dared but you don’t accept the dare? If you do accept the dare?
Questions: 1. What was the ten-year-old girl like? What happened to her? 2. What is the woman like? What does the woman mean by “that one will never grow up to be a lady”? 3. Why will the narrator remember this incident? 4. Why do the mother and child walk away?
A Prairie Museum, Page 70
Questions: Think of some questions you might have after reading this poem. As a group, answer the questions that everyone has.
Writing Assignment: Write a descriptive poem of something easily overlooked. It might be something like a pencil, wristwatch, window sill or weed. A mosquito in the cabin, Page 75
Questions: 1. What is this poem about? 2. Find examples of figurative language in the poem. 3. What is the mood of the poem?
Writing Assignment: Write this poem from the point of view of the mosquito.
Sporting Words, Page 76
Questions:
1. Sketch images that you particularly liked in the poem. 2. How do you think the poet feels about writing? About sports? 3. How does writing differ from sports? 4. Find words in the poem that use words from sports to describe writing?
Make a Poetry Book with the following Poems. You can include pictures, colored paper, designs, different fonts etc.. to make your book like exceptional.
Senses Poetry Select an object and write a poem that uses the five senses. The poem should contain a seven lines. The first and last lines of the poem must contain the single object. Each of the senses are to be used on the remaining lines.
Simile Poetry Poets often compare one thing to another by using a simile. A simile is a figure of speech that uses as or like to make a comparison. A frog is as green as A frog is green like A frog is GREEN. grass, grasshoppers, pickles olives, leaves, emeralds, and limes. and vines. Choose a favorite color, other than green and write a poem following the pattern above. Use the most picturesque words you can. Include a picture of the main subject.
Alliteration Poetry Design a poem that uses alliteration. Alliteration involves using the same vowel/consonant consecutively in a row. Using three different letters, construct a short poem about nature.
Alphabet Poetry Write an alphabet poem. Starting with the first letter in the alphabet and ending at Z. Skip lines in your poem when needed.
Exaggeration Poetry Create a rhyming poem that makes use of exaggeration. The poem should be at least three stanzas in length or minimum of 8 lines.
Acrostic Poetry Create TWO poems using any object, animal, thing or place. Using the name of the word, vertically place it on the page and write phrases that describe the word you have chosen. Dangerous predator Incredible size Nasty animal Outrageous Roar Scary Creature Awesome Teeth Unusual Appetite Repulsive Appearance
Shape Poetry Make a list of basic geometric shapes. Choose one of the shapes and write a poem describing this shape being like eight different objects. Title should be called: Title: What is ROUND?
Cinquain Using the pattern below, write a Cinquain about TWO different animals, or things found in nature. Include a picture of the object or thing that you have chosen.
Line 1: Noun Butterfly Line 2: Two adjectives describing the noun Orange, Black Line 3: Three verbs showing the action of the noun Flies, Flutters, Dives Line 4: Four word statement telling about the noun Migrates to Central America Line 5: Repeat the noun or use a synonym Monarch
Haiku Haiku is a three lined unrhymed poem with a special pattern. The poem is usually a snapshot of time, usually of nature. Select a scene from nature and describe that scene following the example below. Include a drawing of the scene you described.
Line 1: Five Syllables One by one they fall Line 2: Seven Syllables golden brown and yellow leaves Line 3: Five Syllables farewell to summer.
Concrete-Visual Poetry Concrete poems come in all sizes, shapes and colors. They are really different because they emphases is on the visual. Write a short poem that accompanies a visual like one of the following:
Poem 1: The Snow Tramp, by Miriam Waddington
When it snowed When my mother in Winnipeg came home it was late my mother would look and dark; she shook out the window the snow from her hair and say and wondered how it happened I wish I was a gypsy. we didn’t know she had gone tramping She would put on in Kildonan park. her moccasins and sweaters, wrap a scarf My father scolded, around her neck, shoulder but my mother’s soul her snowshoes and go was far away tramping wrapped like a gift in Kildonan park. in stars and snow, and all night long That evening when her gypsy tunes sang my father came home and danced in the wind he found us all supperless, around our house. he was angry and worried but he opened a can of soup and fed us.
Questions: 1. What feelings, memories or experiences does the poem create for you? 2. Who is the speaker? How can you tell? Why do you suppose the poet chose this particular voice? 3. What is the poet trying to say about life or people?
Poem 2: A Vagabond Song
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme. With the yellow and the purple and the crimson taking time.
The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like smoke upon the hills.
There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir; We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls and calls every vagabond by name.
Questions: 1. What effect does autumn have on the winter? 2. What, in autumn, might be yellow, purple and crimson? 3. What are two images suggested in the second stanza? 4. Why is the poem called “A Vagabond Song”?
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