The Outsiders - Advice for a Character Poem

Requirements: 

1. Use dialogue/voice/slang appropriate to your character and character’s situation/conflicts
2. Pick a creative title, followed by “ - Advice to ____” (character) and by  ___ (your name) Example: The Wrath of Detective Johnston – Advice to Johnny by Sam Scholar
3. It must include at least one of EACH: simile, metaphor and idiom (LABEL them!)
4. Use at least five other examples of poetic language: personification, symbol, onomatopoeia, alliteration, allusion, hyperbole, imagery, repeated refrain.
5. It must be a minimum of ten lines, but it does NOT need to rhyme. The maximum length is up to you.
6. Check for spelling and punctuation.
7. LABEL ALL poetics devices used in the MARGIN of the poem. Eight different devices are the required minimum.
8. The final poem must be typed and turned in on Canvas. I

• ALLITERATION:  The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words. Example: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”.
• ALLUSION: a reference to a familiar person, place, thing or event Example: She made an allusion to the Declaration of Independence in her speech.
• HYPERBOLE:  A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis. Examples: tons of money, waiting for ages, a flood of tears, etc.
• IDIOM: A phrase that means something different from what the words actually say. Example: That math problem went over his head.
• IMAGERY: being able to visualize the pictures from what you read
• METAPHOR: A comparison of two unlike things in which one thing is said to BE another thing. Example: Ponyboy was a tiger during the fight.
• ONOMATOPOEIA:     A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. Examples: buzz, hiss, zing, clippety-clop, cock-a-doodle-do, pop, splat,
• PERSONIFICATION:    A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes: the sky is crying, dead leaves dancing in wind
• REFRAIN:    A phrase or line that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza.
• RHYME:     The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words.
• SIMILE:    A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared using the word "like" or "as."  Example: Ponyboy is like a tiger.
• SYMBOL: an object, person, place or event that stands for something else. Example: At the peace seminar, she saw many doves on banners.