Welcome! Please complete the questions on the front side of the handout in front of you within the next minute or so. Please complete the questions on the front side of the handout in front of you within the next minute or so. I am Mrs. Berg. Please write your name on the note card on your desk so that I can call on you. I am Mrs. Berg. Please write your name on the note card on your desk so that I can call on you. Today, you and a small group of individuals will compose 2-4 poems. Today, you and a small group of individuals will compose 2-4 poems. Thank you!

“He was as tall as a six- foot, three-inch tree.” “ Week 310: It’s Like This.” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010.

“The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.” (Paul J. Kocak, Syracuse ) “Week 310: It’s Like This.” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010.

“The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.” “Week 310: It’s Like This.”” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 <

“Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.” “Week 310: It’s Like This.”” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 <

“Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.” Week 310: It’s Like This.”” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 <

“The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.” (Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington) Week 310: It’s Like This.”” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 <

Week 310: It’s Like This.”” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 < “The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.” (Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington)

“John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.” Week 310: It’s Like This.”” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 <

SIMILE COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO UNLIKE “THINGS” USING SEEMS, LIKE, AS, THAN, RESEMBLES, ETC.

METAPHOR COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO UNLIKE “THINGS” THAT STATES OR IMPLIES THAT ONE IS THE OTHER

IMPLIED METAPHOR “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”) “But something touched me deep inside The day the music died.” (Don McLean, “American Pie”)

OTHER QUALITIES EXTENDED METAPHOR “Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.” (Jimi Hendrix) COMPARISONS/ANALOGIES/SIMILES AND METAPHORS CAN ALSO BE OR INCLUDE… *HYPERBOLE*IMAGERY *UNDERSTATEMENT*METONYMY/SYNECHDOCHE *ALLUSION*ETC.

WHY SOME ARE “FUNNY” or INEFFECTIVE NOT COMPARING TWO UNLIKE THINGS Ex.: “He was as tall as a six foot, three inch tree.” DEAD OR CLICHÉ SIMILE/METAPHOR Ex.: “white as snow” MIXED METAPHOR Ex.: “A leopard can’t change his stripes.” (Al Gore) UNDERSTATEMENT OR HYPERBOLE Ex.: “The revelation that his marriage…was over…came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a previously surcharge-free ATM.”

“The line separating painfully bad analogies from weirdly good ones is as thin as a soup made from the shadow of a chicken that was starved to death by Abraham Lincoln.” Week 310: It’s Like This.”” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 <

“Such people are like monkeys Frantically grasping for the moon in the water And then falling into a whirlpool.” Taigu Ryokan ( , written in 1800) Tagore, Ribindranath. “Freedom.” Old Poetry. 14 June Social Design. 14 June 2010.

"So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all…Oz… is anywhere and everywhere, except the place from which we began…In the end, ceasing to be children, we all become magicians without magic, exposed conjurers, with only our simply humanity to get us through. We are the humbugs now." 1 — Salmon Rushdie (Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction )

POSSIBLE TOPICS: Summer is Summer is Life is… Life is… Reality is… Reality is… Dreams are… Dreams are… Happiness is… Happiness is… Peas are… Peas are… My alarm clock is… My alarm clock is… Heaven is… Heaven is… Sleep is… Sleep is… Freedom is… Freedom is… My worst nightmare is…My worst nightmare is… Clowns are…Clowns are… Peace is…Peace is… Childhood is…Childhood is… Babies are…Babies are… War is…War is… Baseball is…Baseball is… Music is…Music is… My guitar is…My guitar is… My best friend is….My best friend is….

ADD THE SECOND LINE. Ex. “Babies are as terrifying and innocent as monsters.” NEXT LINE: 1. Make a comparison to one of the ideas in the previous line (preferably not the first one). a) Terror is… b) Innocence is… c) Monsters are… 2. EXTEND THE COMPARISON. a) Devoid of conscience, they destroy delicate spiders and teddy bears alike. b) Unlike spiders, who patiently wait for their victims to slowly succumb and mummify, they annihilate mindlessly.

Works Cited Alonsi, Adam. “Poetry Analysis: Structure in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas.” Helium Helium, Inc. 14 June Tagore, Ribindranath. “Freedom.” Old Poetry. 14 June Social Design. 14 June “Week 310: It’s Like This.” The Washington Post. 14 Mar Newsweek Interactive. 14 June 2010 <