Poetry

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Poetry

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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Simile

• Friendship is like china,
• Costly and rare.
• Though it can be mended,
• The scratches are always there.

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Simile

• Friendship is like china

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Metaphor

• Hold fast to dreams,
• For if dreams die,
• Life is a broken-winged bird
• That cannot fly.

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Metaphor

• Life is a broken-winged bird

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Personification

• A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red
• Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread.
• I hand him fat slices, and then one by one,
• He hands them back when he sees they are done.

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Personification

• Sits at my elbow
• Hands them back
• Sees they are done

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Simile or metaphor?

• His legs were stilts lifting him above the
  crowds.
• His legs were as long as stilts.

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Simile or metaphor?

• The lions anger blazed a path through the
  jungle.
• The lions anger was like a raging fire.

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Simile or metaphor?

• He was as hungry for knowledge as a deer for
  salt.
• He swallowed every book he read.

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Simile or metaphor?

• The moon was as round as a shiny dollar.
• The moon is a shiny dollar.

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What is being described?

• As loud as a football cheer,
• As nagging as a screeching owl,
• As piercing as a scared cats meow,

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• Is our new babys cry.

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• New-fallen snow
• White
• Wet
• Cold
• Magical
• Fluffy
• Soft
• Sleek
• Glittery
• Smooth
• Glistening

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Assignment

• 1. Choose a topic that interests you.
• 2. Make a list of adjectives that describe it.
  (at least 3)
• 3. Write a simile or metaphor for each adjective.
  
• 4. Write a final line for your poem.