Today's Theme: Creative Writing

Final Thoughts

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Homework

Write a poem of at least three stanzas (with at least three lines each) using one of the literary techniques covered in today's lesson.

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Activity

Exquisite Corpse

Definition: Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.

Today's Theme:

Directions

What is Poetry?

• The first person in each row will receive a blank sheet of paper.
• Each sentence will be based on the literary technique that the teacher selects.
• Write one sentence per turn.
• After you have written your sentence, fold the paper enough to cover your sentence and pass it to the student behind you. (No peeking!)
• Wait for the teacher to announce the next literary technique to be used and repeat process until the teacher calls time.
• Once time is up, the teacher will select students to read the final products!

Creative Writing

Poetry is a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and various forms of literary techniques.

A Lesson on Poetry

Objectives:

Examples

We will be exploring poetry as a method of written and spoken expression.

We will be utilizing the following literary techniques that are often used by poets:

Author Unknown

Literary Techniques

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla

Department of English

What Am I?

I’m bigger than the entire earth

More powerful than the sea

Though a million, billion have tried

Not one could ever stop me.

I control each person with my hand

and hold up fleets of ships.

I can make them bend to my will

with one word from my lips.

I’m the greatest power in the world

in this entire nation.

No one should ever try to stop

a child’s imagination.

"An Ocean of Memories" by Kimberly L. Briones

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Ms. Jessica N. Diaz

April 29, 2015

Grade Level: 10

Source:http://www.mywordwizard.com/hyperbole-poems.html

My Word Wizard

My family is the ocean around us.

My father is the hurricane,

knocking anything and everybody out of his path.

My mother is the sunshine after the storm (my father),

clearing and calming everything else.

My oldest brother is the sand,

kicked and blown away by my dad,

but warmed with care by my mom.

My oldest sister is the breeze in the wind,

cool, quiet, and there when you need her.

My other two brothers are the stingrays,

dangerous,

but also willing to fight anyone who comes along.

And I,

I am an old ship at the bottom of the sea,

lost, abandoned, but full of memories.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Denotation
• Connotation

Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/an-ocean-of-memories#ixzz3YffHnF3m

Family Friend Poems

• Metaphor: a word or phrase applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

• Simile: the comparison of one thing to another of a different kind using the words "like" and/or "as"

• Denotation: the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests

• Connotation: an idea or feeling that a word invokes; the abstract meaning of a term

The following is an excerpt from William Shakespeare's play "As You Like It"

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,”

Source: http://literarydevices.net/denotation/

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