Using Simile in Poetry Ms Bisaga Do Now

Using Simile in Poetry Ms. Bisaga

Do Now • Brainstorm: What do these phrases REALLY mean? 1. It’s raining cats and dogs! 2. This game will be a piece of cake. 3. He’s over the hill. 4. You’re spreading yourself too thin. 5. She had to pay an arm and a leg for her new purse.

Worksheet Instructions • The 1 st page is for your notes. – Definitions, examples, ect. • The 2 nd and 3 rd pages are poems that we’ll read later in our group activity • The 4 th page is going to be your independent work/homework.

Quote of the Day There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. - Pablo Picasso

Figurative Language • is when you describe something by comparing it to something totally different. • A writer might use figurative language to enhance their writing; to make it more interesting, and to paint clearer pictures with their words. – There are many kinds of figurative language: Similes, metaphors, hyperbole, alliteration, personification, ect.

Simile • A Simile is when you compare two things using “like” or “as. ” – Note: Usually, this comparison is made between something kind of hard to understand, like an emotion or an image, and something easier to understand, like an object everyone is familiar with.

Examples of Simile • • Cool as a cucumber Pretty as a picture He had a nose like a tomato Her face was scrunched up as if she’d just smelled something bad.

Spot the Simile… “Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. ”

Spot the Similes… Excerpt: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone By J. K. Rowling “It was a horrible sight. Twelve feet tall, its skin was a dull, granite grey, its great lumpy body like a boulder with its small bald head perched on top like a cocoanut. It had short legs as thick as tree trunks with flat, horny feet. The smell coming from it was incredible. ”

Spot the Simile…Your Turn! • Everyone will be assigned to read ONE of 4 different poems. • As you read, circle the simile’s on your paper! – Remember: A simile is a comparison using like or as. Examples: pretty as a picture, run like the wind • Poems: – I Wander Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth – Firework by Katy Perry – A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes – A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

I Wander Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Firework By Katy Perry Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, Drifting through the wind Wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards, One blow from caving in

A Dream Deferred By Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

A Red, Red Rose By Robert Burns O MY Love's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: O my Love's like the melody That's sweetly play'd in tune!

A Special Place Poem Using what you’ve learned about similes today, you will be writing a poem about a location or place that is special to you. You may use the format printed below to guide your writing, but you don’t have to follow that map. The only rule is that you MUST include at least ONE SIMILE in your poem!

Suggested Format: A Special Place Poem • • • Line 1 -My special place Line 2 -What I see there Line 3 -What I smell there Line 4 -What I hear there Line 5 -What I touch there Line 6 -How I feel there

Suggested Format: A Special Place Poem • • • My special place What I see there What I smell there What I hear there What I touch there How I feel there There is a place called Central Park Where there are trees like towers. The scent of summer fills the air And I hear people laughing somewhere My feet touch the grass as I walk, And I feel very lucky