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Culture Documents
Line
#1. I am
#2. Three nouns about which you have strong feelings. Begin
each with a capital letter.
#3. A complete sentence about two things that you like.
#4. Three nouns that describe what you like to see in other
people; end with "are important to me."
Capitalize each noun.
#5. A sentence containing a positive thought or feeling. It can
tell what you find acceptable in yourself.
#6.-#7. Sentence in which you show something negative in
yourself or others, however the sentence must end by showing
that out of something BAD can come GOOD. Use the word "but"
to link the bad and good.
#8.-#9.-#10. Each line is a short sentence relating something
about which you have strong feelings--likes or dislikes. They do
not have to relate to each other or to the previous lines you have
written.
#11. End with "This is me" or "I am."
Student Examples:
I am
Life, Hope, Living
I care very much about the world and life on it.
Honesty is important to me.
Optimism is important to me.
Unselfishness is important to me.
Hospitality is a good thing.
Meanness is bad, but can be goot to get people
off your back.
The world is getting weaker.
The longer the days the more beautiful they are.
People are too negative.
I am.
--Liz Webster (Grade 9)
Poetic Device
Definition
Examples
Cadence
The Raven
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
Similes
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?
Metaphors
Mother to Son
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
Well, son, Ill tell you:
Life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor
Bare.
But all the time
Ise been a-climbin on,
And reachin landins,
And turnin corners,
And sometimes goin in the dark
Where there aint been no light.
So boy, dont you turn back.
Dont you set down on the steps
Cause you finds its kinder hard.
Dont you fall now
For Ise still goin, honey,
Ise still climbin,
And life for me aint been no crystal stair.
DIRECTIONS:
creep
stumbl
e
trot
totter
strut
skate
slide
leap
slink
skulk
crawl
Student Examples:
steal
bound
bounce
dart
lope
trudge
plod
advanc
e
drag
slip
saunte
r
JULY trudges
right in
with a bang.
It crawls around
on the hot ground,
leaps around
spreading warmth,
Alliteration
The Bicycle
In the babbling I broke my bike
In the deep end directly near the dyke
Biking is fun, you feel so free
Just dont sit on your cycle when you swim or ski
Personification
Violin
She sleeps in her rose wood bed,
under a blanket of velvet red;
old and alone and forgotten,
she dreams of the love she once had.
Once again she recalls his caress
on the curve of her hips
and her breast
as he moved his bow
on the strings of her soul,
playing her sound
'til his passion was spent.
~~~
They traveled the whole world over,
to every city and town;
the maestro, his bow and violin,
bringing each curtain down.
~~~
He died in a cry of sweet refrain,
clutching her strings to his heart;
as he fell to the floor in a final encore,
tearing her world apart.
~~~
So she sleeps in her rose wood bed,
under a blanket of velvet red;
her strings still filled
with the song of her soul,
etched by the maestro
that loved her
so long ago!
~~~~~
Author: Elaine George
Titles of poems I
enjoy and why
Poetic Devices
used