Giving human attributes to an object. what part of speech is used to create personification? personification verbs

What is the personification at work in the story Click, clack, Moo? And, what is special about the words to the right?

is a word that imitates the sound it represents.

Can you think of an onomatopoeic form of transportation in Hong Kong? In Thailand? video 1video 2

moo Onomatopoeia ring crunch wham

Onomatopoeia roar roar clunk pitter patter vroom

Use the worksheet within your group to identify onomatopoea for the sounds you will hear.

Find examples of onomatopoeia in this comic strip: in this comic strip:

galoshes - windowpane - bumbershoot - puddle - clatter - - the glass part of a window - boots for rain - a small pool of water - a soundword - an umbrella

Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot Spotting the windowpane. Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck Freckling the windowpane. A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter A splatter a rumble outside. Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella Bumbershoot barrel of rain. Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh Slither and slather a glide A puddle a jump a puddle a jump A puddle a jump puddle splosh A juddle a pump aluddle a dump a Puddmuddle jump in and slide!

Betty Botter Betty Botter bought some butter. "But," she said, "the butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter-- that would make my batter better.” So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter. And she put it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!

When a poem has rhyming words at the ends of lines, these are called ‘end rhymes’. Here is an example of an end rhyme: My cat is nice. My cat likes mice. A ‘rhyme scheme’ is a way of showing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter. If an end line sound is the same as one that came before – it gets the same letter as the previous line.

My cat is nice. A My cat likes mice. A My cat is fat. B I like my cat. B Rhyme scheme is AABB My cat is gray. A My cat likes fat. B My cat is cute. C I like my cat. B Rhyme scheme is ABCB My cat is nice. A My cat likes fat. B My cat likes mice. A I like my cat. B Rhyme scheme is ABAB

Mr Brown the Circus Clown Mr Brown, the circus clown Puts his clothes on upside down. He wears his hat upon his toes And socks and shoes upon his nose. Rhyme scheme is ___________ All my Great Excuses I started on my homework But my pen ran out of ink My hamster ate my homework. My computer’s on the blink. Rhyme scheme is ___________ My Writing is Awfully Bad My writing’s awfully bad My printing’s plainly awful. In truth, my writing looks so sad, It ought to be unlawful! Rhyme scheme is ___________ Today I had a Rotten Day As I was coming home from play I accidentally stubbed my toes And tripped and fell and whacked my nose. Rhyme scheme is ___________

We said before that poems have a beat and we call it rhythm. Let’s learn more about rhythm. We know that words have syllables. The word ‘poem’ has ___ syllables. We say 1 syllable loudly (stressed) and the other softly (unstressed) / - poem

iamb trochee anapest dactyl amphibrach - / / / / / -

iamb trochee anapest dactyl amphibrach - / / / / / - We divide poems into feet. Because I could not stop for death 1 foot: monometer 2 feet: dimeter 3 feet: trimeter 4 feet: tetrameter 5 feet: pentameter 6 feet: hexameter 7 feet: heptameter 8 feet: octameter So this line of poetry is: iambictetrameter _ / _ / _ / _ / Because / I could / not stop / for death

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.