The use of figurative language that imitates sound for the reader.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Taken from Blizzard
All of a sudden the sun came out as fast as a lizard.
What is a simile?
100
Pinata
In the night,
while we were asleep,
the birthday pinata
fell out of the tree like an overripe fruit,
What is being compared is a birthday pinata compared to an overripe piece of fruit.
100
Chairs
Chairs seem to sit down on themselves, almost as if
They were people,
Some fat, some thin;
Settled comfortably
On their own seats
What is personification?
100
Ms. Hoehn is as friendly as ___________________.
What is _________________________.
200
I add to the reader's imagination, so that they can see a picture in their mind while reading.
What is imagery/descriptive writing?
200
Taken from Street Music
This city:
the always noise, grinding up from the subways under ground: slamming from bus tires and taxi horns and engines of cars and trucks in all.
What is descriptive language/imagery?
200
Dreams
Life is a broken winged bird
Life is compared to a bird with a broken wing.
200
The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur.
What is a metaphor?
200
The sun is like the brightness of ____________________.
What is ________________________.
300
I begin every sentence with the same letter.
What is alliteration?
300
Street Music continued
vocabularies of
clash
flash
screeching
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A Blank White Page
is a meadow
after a snowfall
that a poem hopes to cross
What is compared is a blank white page to meadow that is covered in snow?
300
Her hope was a fragile seed.
What is a metaphor?
300
The carpet has the toughness and color of ______________.
What is __________________________.
400
I compare two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
400
Summer Sun
luminous
orange
hanging
from the tree
of noontime
What is imagery/descriptive language?
400
Her hair was a flowing golden river streaming down her shoulders.
What is being compared is the girls hair to a streaming, golden river.
400
Sun
Like a flat
Quilt, where
The cat can curl
And purr
What is imagery or descriptive language?
400
The broken winged bird was as fragile as ___________.
What is _____________________.
500
I provide a greater difference between the two things that are being compared.
What is a metaphor?
500
Words are Birds
words
are birds
that arrive
with books
and spring
What is a metaphor?
500
The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and forlorn.
What is being compared is RESILIENT, beautiful, forlorn children who are being compared to roses that were grown in concrete.
500
Seeds
You drew pictures of life with your words.
I listened and ate these words you said
to grow up strong.
Like the trees. I grew branches, leaves, flowers and then the fruit.
What is a metaphor?
500
The barren playground was as lonely as ___________.