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Capture Your Reader's Attention:  Figurative Language that Makes you say, "Huh!"

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Capture Your Reader's Attention:  Figurative Language that Makes you say, "Huh!"

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Capture Your Reader's Attention: Figurative Language that Makes you Say, "Huh!"

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This document contains the poems we read in class that you can use as mentor texts.

These are also included in your E9: Poetry Unit Summative Submission Doc.

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Have you ever heard the phrase "show don't tell"? One way poets do this, is to include imagery that evokes the five senses. Watch the video to find out more!

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Your poem’s title should catch your reader’s interest and entice them to read on, so it’s important to make a great first impression.

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Sometimes, coming up with the title for your poem can be harder than writing the actual poem! Your poem's title should catch your reader's interest and entice them to read on, so it's important to make a great first impression. For inspiration, here is a list of examples from the best literary poems of all time.
Examples of Great Poem Titles - And What Makes Them So Good
Choose evocative language. Your poem's title is an opportunity to lead with a gripping, memorable image. "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost is a great example of a poem title that conjures an immediate sense of mood, time, and place.

Lead with an archetype. Archetypes are powerful tools for storytellers and poets, functioning as a kind of emotional shorthand that can trigger an immediate reader response. For example: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" taps into an animal archetype that evokes shivers (and suggests canny intelligence) even before we read a word of the poem. Alfred Noyes's classic poem "The Highwayman" leans similarly on a character archetype.

Go for the emotional jugular. Mary Frye's "Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep" hits readers hard with heart-wrenching drama and a bold demand.

Raise a question/conflict. We love the title of Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise." Not only do the monosyllabic words make a big impact, but the meaning of the words suggests an inherent conflict - an opponent or obstacle that requires conquering (again and again). But what is this obstacle? The title makes us want to read on to learn more.

Use a single word. One-word poem titles can be tricky to pull off. Choose the wrong word and readers might skip over your poem. If you're going to try a one-word title, choose a word that has complicated or even polarizing meaning. Examples include Allen Ginsberg's "America" and Sylvia Plath's "Daddy. "

Make use of an "offhand remark." Billy Collins's title "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House" is the perfect example of a title that reads like an aside. Of course, the poem's statement is - perhaps ironically - anything but tangential.

Use a character's name. If the subject of your poem is a character with a great name, use it in the title. T.S. Eliot is remembered for his poem entitled "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock." Shel Silverstein's title "Mr. Grumpledump's Song" is just plain hilarious.

Focus on a place. Poetry titles like "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae or "After Auschwitz" by Anne Sexton bring readers immediately to their core subject matter without any detours.

Embrace humor or quirkiness. James Tate's poem "The List Of Famous Hats" tickles us and makes us want to read more. And the peculiar-sounding title of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" lets readers know something fantastical is in store.

Omit the title. You don't have to give your poem a title at all - and some poets prefer this style. But if you choose to call your poem "Untitled," keep in mind that some editors prefer works that have clear, "Googleable" titles. However, if "Untitled" truly is the best title for your poem - go for it.
Titles And Copyright Law For Poets
Current copyright law states that authors cannot copyright the titles of their poems - which means any poem title is up for grabs, even if it has been used before. That said, we don't recommend using the same title as another poem, if you can help it. Better to be original.

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How To Come Up With The Right Title For Your Poem (With Examples)

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Sometimes, coming up with the title for your poem can be harder than writing the actual poem! Your poem's title should catch your reader's interest and entice them to read on, so it's important to make a great first impression. For inspiration, here is a list of examples from the best literary poems of all time.

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Here what a famous poet has to say about the importance of revision.

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Recorded at Poets Forum 2014 as part of our Chancellors Conversations-a series of intimate talks during which the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets examine issues central to poetry today. In this video, Naomi Shihab Nye discusses her thoughts and approaches to revision.

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RADaR works for poetry, too! Use this guide to help you decide what to revise. :)

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Starting with the last line, read the poem line by line, this time from bottom to top. You'll notice elements like patterns and themes that had not surfaced previously. What do you like? What do you want to change? Make those revisions and read it one more time.

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Check out these tips from Master Class!

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Try this activity to make a boring line in your poem more interesting!

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Read Your Poem Out Loud. Several Times. 

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Read Your Poem Out Loud. Several Times. 

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Read your poem out loud. Again. To yourself. To a kind person. To your dog. When your voice follows your notation, does it sound right? Does it feel right? Does thought move from the first line and push forward? Do you land at the end? Make changes based on what you discover by reading your poem aloud.

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Try these exercises to help you choose better words! 

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Try these exercises to help you choose better words! 

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3 Hacks to Make Your Poetry Words Better

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Watch the video (it starts around 2 minutes and ends around 5 min.) OR just do the lesson!

Find and replace all “to be” verbs: is, are, was, were, being, becoming

Replace them with strong action verbs.

Example with “to be” verb: The dancer was leaping around the stage.

Example without “to be: verb: The dancer leapt across the stage.

Go through your poem and replace all "to be" verbs with strong action verbs!

Find powerful verbs on your own, or start with this list!

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Use this lesson as a guide!

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Find verbs that are so general they don’t give you information about how an action is done.

Examples of “blah” verbs: went, goes, walked

Examples of precise, action-packed words: trudged, sauntered, waddled, sprinted.

Example: She went to the closet to look for her school uniform.

Replace: She trudged to the closet and reluctantly opened the doors to search for her school uniform.
Find powerful verbs on your own, or start with this list!

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Add energy to your poem by paying attention to where you end (break) each line!

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A poet walks through the process of changing the line breaks in a poem.

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Add a color and exploit it throughout the poem. This is often a surprisingly effective enlivening strategy, one that can alter the tone of the poem.

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Look up the vocabulary of an esoteric subject that has nothing to do with your poem. The subject might be mushroom foraging, astronomy, cryogenics, perfume-making, bee keeping, the Argentinian tango, or zombies. Make a list of at least ten words. Include a variety of parts of speech. Import the words into your poem. Develop as needed.

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Remember: personification is when you give a non-human object human experiences or feelings.

Pick any one concrete object in your poem and personify it throughout the poem. For example, if there's a rock, give it feelings, let it observe and think, give it a voice. As the object comes alive, so may the poem.

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Start the video at around 2 minutes. Start with a plain literal noun such as leaf. Ask yourself "what did the leaf remind me of?" Poet Victoria Hunter calls this a "slanted" line.