Metaphor Poem

*Please copy these notes about metaphor into your notebooks*

Metaphors gain their power from our senses. When a writer names nouns (persons, places, and things), the reader automatically associates the nouns with smells, tastes, touches, sights, and sounds.
Because metaphors use one noun to describe another, they create instant pictures. For example, "Shoes are hats for feet" or "Shoes are the brains at the southern end." These both create pictures.
Metaphors are easy to write. Just compare one noun to another noun with a different meaning using the verbs IS, ARE, OF. Consider the following: "Love is a glove." "Love is a baseball." "Love is a turnip." These sentences may at first seem unusual. The connections between the nouns within the metaphors, however, can always be explained in interesting ways, as in the following example: "Love is a turnip. It is a root of happiness."

**Your writing assignment**

1. In your notebooks, write the name of a thing, place, or event from science, history, geography, nutrition, literature, math, or PE.
2. Begin each sentence with "I am."
3. Complete your sentences with facts about your subject.
4. Your poem should have the minimum of five stanzas or 10 lines total.

Choose one of the following topics or write about something of your own choice:

the sea a recipe an animal a planet a character in a book a novel a city a state a country a math fact an ocean a part of speech

***Here is an example-

"I Am Illinois"

I am Illinois, growing in the sunlight and soaking in the rain.

Like the corn of my farmland, I have my family roots.

I am the midwest, in the middle of somewhere in between

searching for identiy between the vastness.

I am the small town, a dot on the map

where people's lives intertwine to become one.

I am the farmer struggling to exist

Waiting and watching as nature plays its tricks

I am the tornatdo twirling and swirling.

I am Illinois all the way through.