Extended metaphor poems

8th grader extended metaphor poem

A Sketch and Notes by Amy LV Students - Today's poem came from a drawing and a bit of thinking that came from the drawing. Above, you can see a shell that I drew. I was looking through a jewelers loupe, trying to draw as accurately as I could. Then, I took a few notes about what the shell made me think about, what it reminded me of. I asked myself the Questions from Kerry Ruef's book, THE PRIVATE EYE: What does it look like? What else does it remind me of? Why is it like that? Why did it…

O Captain ! My Captain! Poetic devices: rhyme- End/internal/slanted/rhyme scheme Repetition- Alteration Consonance- repeated Word Order- flow of words Imagery- Metaphor, sensory language

Here, we've disccused 7 types of Metaphors; 1) direct metaphor, 2) implied metaphor, 3) extended metaphor, 4) mixed metaphor, 5) dead metaphor, 6) symbolic metaphor and 7) personication matephor.

you to me are like the moon

As state testing time is RAPIDLY approaching (T minus 5 school days until THE TEST!), I've been trying to hit test material/strategies in all content areas, not just during test prep time. Writing Workshop has been a great place to review skills like author's purpose, text genre and style, and most recently figurative language. We talk about figurative language all year long during shared reading, but most times that just involves pointing out examples when we happen to come across them in…

extended metaphors

Extended metaphor poem written by 8th grader