Review Giving human attributes to an object what

Review Giving human attributes to an object. what part of speech is used to create personification? personification verbs

What is the personification at work in the story Click, clack, Moo? And, what is special about the words to the right?

is a word that imitates the sound it represents.

Can you think of an onomatopoeic form of transportation in Hong Kong? In Thailand? video 1 video 2

p a l c , clap

Onomatopoeia crunch moo ring wham

Onomatopoeia vroom clunk roar pitter patter

Use the worksheet within your group to identify onomatopoea for the sounds you will hear.

Find examples of onomatopoeia in this comic strip:

The gun banged loudly as he pulled the trigger. The gun went off with a loud bang! The gun made a loud banging sound. Onomatopoeias are often used as verbs, nouns, or adjectives!

- the glass part of a window galoshes - boots for rain windowpane - a small pool of water bumbershoot - a soundword puddle - an umbrella clatter -

Weather A poem by Eve Merriam

Found in this anthology, published in 1966

• “You can write poems because you MUST write them, because you can’t live your life without writing them. • I spend weeks looking for precisely the right word. It’s like having a small marble in your pocket - - you can just feel it. • Sometimes you find a word and say, “No, I don’t think this is it. ” • Then you discard it and take another, and another, until you get the word right. • Poetry is great fun. That’s what I’d like to stress more than anything else: the joy and sounds of language. • -Eve Merriam (1916 -1992)

“One thing that springs to mind about my mother’s love of language is that she believed in the sounds of words as much as their meaning. ” – Eve Merriam’s son, Dee Michel

Writing a Sound Poem Guiding Notes pages 4 & 5

Use the internet to help you find onomatopoeia to describe a rainstorm

Write a poem about a weather event (GN pg 5) Include rhymes and alliteration. You may consider rhythm as well.

Poetry Race Betty Botter bought some butter. "But, " she said, "the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter-that would make my batter better. ” So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter. And she put it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!

Lets learn more about rhyme… RHYME SCHEME When a poem has rhyming words at the ends of lines, these are called ‘end rhymes’. Here is an example of an end rhyme: My cat is nice. My cat likes mice. • A ‘rhyme scheme’ is a way of showing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. • Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter. • If an end line sound is the same as one that came before – it gets the same letter as the previous line.

RHYME SCHEME My cat is nice. A My cat likes mice. A My cat is fat. B I like my cat. B Rhyme scheme is AABB My cat is nice. A My cat likes fat. B My cat likes mice. A I like my cat. B Rhyme scheme is ABAB My cat is gray. A My cat likes fat. B My cat is cute. C I like my cat. B Rhyme scheme is ABCB

Mr Brown the Circus Clown All my Great Excuses Mr Brown, the circus clown Puts his clothes on upside down. He wears his hat upon his toes And socks and shoes upon his nose. I started on my homework But my pen ran out of ink My hamster ate my homework. My computer’s on the blink. Rhyme scheme is ___________ My Writing is Awfully Bad My writing’s awfully bad My printing’s plainly awful. In truth, my writing looks so sad, It ought to be unlawful! Rhyme scheme is ______ Today I had a Rotten Day As I was coming home from play I accidentally stubbed my toes And tripped and fell and whacked my nose. Rhyme scheme is ______

RHYTHM We said before that poems have a beat and we call it rhythm. Let’s learn more about rhythm. • We know that words have syllables. 2 • The word ‘poem’ has ___ syllables. • We say 1 syllable loudly (stressed) and the other softly (unstressed) / - poem

RHYTHM CONT. iamb -/ trochee /- anapest --/ dactyl amphibrach /--/-

repeated stress patterns iamb -/ trochee /- anapest --/ dactyl /-- _ / I could _ /not stop_for death / _ Because / I could / not stop / for death amphibrach -/- / We divide poems into feet. 1 foot: monometer 2 feet: dimeter 3 feet: trimeter 4 feet: tetrameter 5 feet: pentameter 6 feet: hexameter 7 feet: heptameter 8 feet: octameter So this line of poetry is: iambic tetrameter

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. iambic tetrameter

The clean water in a brook flows "sara". The scarce water in a brook flows "choro". It is raining "shito" softly. It is beginning raining "potsun" softly. It is raining "zaa zaa" strongly or "jaa jaa". - Japanese poem, Author unknown

"Storm" by William Thomas Dodd A cacophonous cannonade of thunder, doesn't it make you wonder? blasting buss of blunder, pitter-patter rain, pouring under, streets awash like tumult tundra, lucid lightning flash, clip-clop heels as people dash

water plops into pond splish-splash downhill warbling magpies in tree trilling, melodic thrill - "Running Water" by Lee Emmett

Piddle-paddle, piddle-paddle, splash, splash Into the pool with a great big dash! - "Piddle-Paddle" by Jaymie Gerard

The gun banged loudly as he pulled the trigger. The gun went off with a loud bang! The gun made a loud banging sound. Onomatopoeias are often used as verbs, nouns, or adjectives!