Mrs. Farmer's Class: Pronouns, Poetry, and a Pizza Party.
How to write in the first, second or third person. What is past, present and future tense? What is a dictionary? What is a thesaurus? What does an author do? How to plan your story. How is a story.How to Analyze Poetry Poetry is a compact language that expresses complex feelings. To understand the multiple meanings of a poem, readers must examine its words and phrasing from the perspectives of rhythm, sound, images, obvious meaning, and implied meaning.Especially if you write in the present tense, second person allows the reader to experience the story as if it’s their own. To avoid a “choose your own adventure” feel or an aggressive tone, mix up sentence structure and add in description and dialogue. Using the pronoun “you” and describing action as it happens supplies a personal.
Read the poem The Listeners, and underline all the pronouns you can find. Rewrite the following sentences changing the nouns in bold type to pronouns. The Traveller rode the Traveller’s horse as fast as the horse could go. Emma said that Emma wanted to read Emma’s favorite poem to them. Jack and Kate enjoyed the poem that Emma read to Jack.In Example 1, in order for the direct quotation to fit into the writer's sentence, the capitalized letter at the beginning of the quote and the pronoun at the end need to be changed. The square brackets around (r) and (them) indicate that these are the writer's modifications and do not appear in the original source text.
Preposition Poem. Using prepositional phrases to write a poem is fairly simple. First, let's discuss what a prepositional phrase is. Prepositions are words used before nouns to form a phrase that modifies another word in the sentence. English has about 150 prepositions.
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