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Stormy Poetry
FOG
by: Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on
Figurative Language:
Personification
• A type of figurative language
• Attributing human qualities to something
nonhuman
• Examples
– The wind yells
– The stars dance
– Rays of sunshine tiptoed through the valley
Figurative LanguageAlliteration, Metaphor, & Simile
• Alliteration: the repetition of a sound at the
beginning of two or more neighboring words
– Examples:
• Julie Jackson juggled the juicy, jiggly jello
• Gary’s giraffe gobbled green goodies
• Simile: when you compare two nouns that are
unlike each other, with “like” or “as”
– Examples:
• As big as a bus
• Eats like a pig
• Metaphor: when you use two nouns and
compare them to one another
– Don’t use “like” or “as” in comparison
– Examples:
• The test was a breeze
• I am a rainbow
Free Verse Poetry
• Does not follow any particular meter or rhyme
scheme
– So there are no rules?????
• The writer gets to make up the rules and decide how the
poem looks, feels, and sounds
• To be considered poetry carefully chosen words
should be arranged into verses
• Should have rhythm
– We’re going to break our poems into stanzas
Severe Storms:
Thunderstorms
• Form when warm, humid air is pushed
high into the atmosphere
- Most likely to occur in spring or summer
• Every thunderstorm has lightning
– Lighting is a result of electric charges that build up in
the cloud and eventually shoot electricity through the
air
– It’s VERY HOT along the path of a lightning bolt,
which makes the air expand very quickly
• The shock waves produce the sound of thunder
– Thunder ISN’T dangerous, but lighting IS
Severe Storms:
Thunderstorm
• Can include:
– Heavy rain
– Hail
– Strong wind
*May produce a tornado
• Usually lasts less than 1 hour
– Rain forms a cool downdraft that stops more warm
air from moving up into the cloud
Severe Storms:
Hurricanes
• Large & long-lasting
• Winds move in a spiral
– Exceed 74 mph
• Starts as a low-pressure area over the ocean
– Winds blow into this area, and the Earth’s rotation
causes them to spin around the low
– Prevailing winds push the hurricane
• Hits land
waves
Heavy rain, strong winds, huge
– Can cause flooding & destruction
• Safety?
Hurricanes
• Center is called “the eye”
• If the storm is over warm water, it can
continue to grow
Severe Storms:
Tornadoes
• An intense windstorm
– NOT a cloud
– Often form within a thunderstorm
– Winds spin in a column of air that extends from the
bottom of a thundercloud
– The swirling funnel descends from the cloud
– Funnel must touch the ground to be called a
“tornado”
• Does not produce any precipitation
– This differentiates it from the other 2 types of
storms
Video
• Severe Storms
Poetry + Figurative Language
+ Weather = FUN!
• You will write a free verse poem about 1 of the
3 types of storms we reviewed
– Should be more than 10 lines, but no more than 24
lines
*Remember to break the lines into stanzas
• The poem should include:
– Personification
– Alliteration (at least 3 words in a row)
– A simile or metaphor
*Important: The poem must reflect your
knowledge of the storm you choose
Your Poem
• Today you will complete your poem and
share it with your partner
• Tomorrow (in class) you will create a
drawing to go along with your poem
– Your drawing must show personification
• Tomorrow (homework) you will type up
your poem
• Your poetry & artwork will be put on
display for all to see!