Day 17 - Month Metaphors

Month Metaphors: You can use a metaphor as a springboard to write a Month Metaphor poem.  The format is the same as when you did writing about weather.


DIRECTIONS:

1. Choose a month -- or a season -- and picture how it would arrive if it were a person OR an animal.The list of Motion Words below may help you, or you may use another word to show how the month or season arrives.
2. Add a few words to make the picture seem more complete.  Tell how OR where it arrives.  Use adverb or prepositional phrases.  If you wish, use a thesaurus to find synonyms to replace overworked words.
3. Tell something else the month or season does while it is here.
4. Tell how the month or season leaves.

NOTE:  be sure you keep the same comparison (metaphor) throughout the poem. Don't change to a different picture.
                                                  Motion Words:

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march
stagger
skip
prance
float
tiptoe
gallop
hop
limp
hobble
canter

wobble
sneak
zoom
tramp
dance
shuffle
scurry
spring
glide
flutter
lurch

creep
stumble
trot
totter
strut
skate
slide
leap
slink
skulk
crawl

steal
bound
bounce
dart
lope
trudge
plod
advance
drag
slip
saunter

Student Examples:

JULY 
trudges right in
with a bang.
It crawls around
on the hot ground,
leaps around
spreading warmth,
then glides right
out of the way.
---Daniel Day-Lewis (Grade 6)

SEPTEMBER 
creeps in quietly
and unnoticed.
It just sits there
waiting,
watching for something
to happen.
Then, just a quickly
as before,
it creeps back out.
---Chris Pine (Grade 7)

NOVEMBER 
slides in
on clouds of snow
and rain.
It blows away
the warmth,
and sneaks in
the cold,
then drags away.
---Zachary Quinto (Grade 8)