POETRY

This term we have been learning about poetic writing. We have been practising our use of figurative language (personification, simile and metaphor) to make our description more interesting.

This week we wrote some poems that compared being confident with being self-conscious. This helped us to think about how we will need to mentally prepare ourselves for Stage Challenge.

Here are two of the poems:

We were learning about personification, how it gives human abilities to some things that are not human.

‘The tree waved its arms in the wind.’

But trees don’t have arms, they have branches and that’s why we use personification to make our writing more interesting.

We have also learned that similes and metaphors make writing more interesting.

‘Jay’s hair is as curly as the roaring ocean.’

This is a simile for it has an ‘as’ in it but you can also use ‘like’ to compare different things.

Metaphors use ‘is’ to leave a vivid impression on the reader.

‘Her hair is black silk.’

Thank you for taking the time to read what we have been writing about recently.

By Jan and Alex