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Writing Workshop 8 (continued)
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY Figurative language describes imaginative language or figures of speech not meant to be taken literally. A simile
is a comparison of two things or ideas that are not literally alike, using the words like or as. Personification is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
8 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 7
Drafting
4. Free write to generate ideas, lines, or stanzas to contribute to the class poem.
5. Working with your teacher and classmates, create a draft by selecting and rearranging lines contributed by individual students. Make a copy of the draft on a separate page.
Check Your Understanding
After you have completed this process, read over the poem that your class has created. Refer to the Scoring Guide to help determine how well the poem meets the criteria for this assignment. Next, consider the following:
• What is the subject and theme of our class poem? What should the title be? • Who is the speaker, and what is the speaker’s tone? Does it shift? How?
• What is the structure of our poem? How did we use poetic elements such as
stanzas, rhyme scheme, and meter to create this structure?
• Did we use consistent and purposeful punctuation and capitalization? • How did we use imagery (descriptive and figurative language) to
communicate ideas and tone?
Revising for Language and Writer’s Craft
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Using similes and personification can help convey powerful emotions associated with a visual image. Consider how William Wordsworth uses these poetic techniques in the second stanza of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”:
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The phrase “Continuous as the stars that shine” is an example of a simile because the field of flowers described in the previous stanza is being compared to a sky full of stars. Visualize the image described by this simile. What emotions do you associate with this image?
Possible response: I visualize looking up at a night sky filled with stars, and I feel awe and wonder.
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