As I sat in my most comfortable chair, I realized,...changes are coming. I knew I had to do something, but what? "I know!" I shouted, jumping out of my seat, "I'll start with..."
Life-changing incidents/ Birthday Box by Jane Yolen
How would you cope with a life-changing incident? How might such an event change your day-to-day life? Discuss how you would feel if you were to lose someone you know or someone you love? Write 2 tongue twisting poems about The Raven, using the literary elements of: onomatopoeia, alliteration, consonance, and external & internal rhyme. Identify the rhyme scheme (ink). Underline and label the elements you used in ink.
Example: It was a bleak, blizzard-like December I barely remember The woe-some words you wouldn't say Rascally raven flying wretchedly wilting its wings in the ember of the fizzling flames and the dying of the day. Raven, you sadly say, my heart breaks this day for the lost love of Lenore endlessly tapping always quoth--Nevermore! Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC Sometimes I am quiet when I think of who I am; who I want to be. My name means I can roar it out loud.
"I should have known, I should have known...." she said as she rocked back and forth; her pendant clasped tightly in her shaking hands.
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