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Day 14 - More Formula Poems

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Formula poems help you use language effectively.  Knowing grammar and literary terms helps you to write vivid poems that show your reader a mental image.  The better your reader can see what you are talking about, the more s/he will like it.


Directions: Write two Formula Poems using any of the forms below.

Formulas:
Title:  Noun
#1: Verb
#2: Verb phrase
#3: Three adjectives

Title:  Participle
#1: Three nouns that do it
#2: Two adjectives
#3: Simile

Title:  Earliest Memory
#1: Adverb (where)
#2: Doing what
#3: Two or three words showing emotion
#4: Detail from the setting
#5: Skip a line
#6: Tell how you feel


Samples:
Title:  Giraffes
#1: Munching
#2: Loping in the grass
#3: Stately, long-necked, silent.

Title:  Jumping
#1: Frogs, kangaroos, jumping beans
#2: Happy, playful
#3: Like a single heart

Title:  Earliest Memory
#1: At the easel
#2: Painting a sailboat
#3: Intense, quiet, relaxed


#4: Too much water on the brush
#5:
#6: Frustrated!
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