Descriptive Poetry 1

Descriptive Poetry

Writing 1

We are revising poetic devices and techniques

• By the end of the lesson you will idenify different poetic devices

• and make connections between different poems

Open Ended

What does descriptive language mean?

Multiple Select

Which language techniques do you already know?

(There is more than one answer)

• Expanded Noun Phrase

• Show, not tell

• Repetition

• Emotive language

• Similes and metaphors

Open Ended

Write down 5 words you that come to your mind when you think of ice cream

Let's listen to some of your words

What types of words are they?

Record your words and describe what word class they are on Flipgrid.

Water Company by Ruth Padel

• What is this poem about?

• Which vocabulary can you steal?

• What poetic devices can you spot?

How's My Coal by Simon Barraclough

• What is this poem about?

• What vocabulary can you steal?

• What poetic devices can you spot?

Except for the Lone Wave

• What is this poem about?

• What vocabulary can you steal?

• What poetic devices can you spot?

Open Ended

What theme did all of the poems you just read have in common?

(A theme is what the poem is about)