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POETRY WRITING COMPETITION FOR 7-11 YEAR-OLDS LET’S GET STARTED

Today you are going to: Create a monster • Learn about narrative poetry • Write a narrative poem Young Writers’ • Monster Poetry competition

Descriptive Words

Monster Examples

Create Your Monster Use the planning sheet to describe and draw your monster

What is a narrative poem? • A poem that tells a story • Has a beginning, middle and end • Uses a range of poetry techniques for effect

What could you write about? A day out with your monster • How your monster saved the world • Your monster’s evil plan to take over the universe • Your monster going for lunch with the Queen • What happened when your monster came to school •

Poetry Techniques • Simile A simile describes something or someone ‘like’ or ‘as’ something else. Example: ‘She was as white as a ghost’ • Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of the same starting sound in several words of a sentence. Example: ‘ P eter P iper p icked a p eck of p ickled p epper’ • Rhyme A rhyme is a word that is identical to another in its terminal sound. Example: ‘cat and hat’ Example 2: ‘while and mile’ • Rhythm Rhythm refers to the pattern of sounds made varying the stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

Examples of Narrative Poems Key The Highwayman Simile Alliteration Rhyme PART ONE IV I And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, But he loved the landlord's daughter, And the highwayman came riding- The landlord's red-lipped daughter, Riding-riding- Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. V II 'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night, He'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin, But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin; Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, They fitted with never a wrinkle: his boots were up to the thigh! Then look for me by moonlight, And he rode with a jewelled twinkle, Watch for me by moonlight, His pistol butts a-twinkle, I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.' His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky. VI III He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand, Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, But she loosened her hair I' the casement! His face burnt like a brand And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast; He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there And he kissed its waves in the moonlight, But the landlord's black-eyed daughter, (Oh, sweet, black waves in the moonlight!) Bess, the landlord's daughter, Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight, Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair. and galloped away to the West. By Alfred Noyes, 1906

Examples of narrative poems Key Simile Alliteration Rhyme The Listeners 'Neath the starred and leafy sky; "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, For he suddenly smote on the door, even Knocking on the moonlit door; Louder, and lifted his head:-- And his horse in the silence champed the grass "Tell them I came, and no one answered, Of the forest's ferny floor; That I kept my word," he said. And a bird flew up out of the turret, Never the least stir made the listeners, Above the Traveller's head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; Though every word he spake "Is there anybody there?" he said. Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house But no one descended to the Traveller; From the one man left awake: No head from the leaf-fringed sill Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, And the sound of iron on stone, Where he stood perplexed and still. And how the silence surged softly backward, But only a host of phantom listeners When the plunging hoofs were gone. That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight By Walter de la Mare, 1912 To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller's call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,

Plot Planning Where is your monster from? • Does it have friends? • Is it good or bad? • What adventures can you go on? • Where can you go? • What did you see? • What did you hear? • What did you smell? • What did you feel? • What did you taste? • Write your ideas on your planning sheet

Example Monster Poems The Sabre-Toothed Huggle The Fiend The Fiend was born in a volcano On the way to school I met It has molten-red skin and yellow eyes that glow A monster all fluffy and blue It smells smoky and has crooked teeth He wasn’t a lost pet It is mean and likes chaos. And he was about 6 foot 2. It left the volcano on an adventure His teeth were pointy and white It needed to be nasty and make people sad Yet he was a friendly creature But it met me on the beach. When he asked to go and fly a kite I trapped The Fiend in a hole I’d dug ‘Of course!’ said my teacher. And it sizzled as the tide came in We felt the wind pull the kite string Its flaming skin turned blue We smelt BBQ on the breeze ‘I’m sorry,’ it said and turned to dust. We played on the swings ‘Hooray! You saved us!’ the people said And then climbed up the trees. And I smiled at them with my crooked teeth and yellow Today was amazing, today was just brill eyes that glowed … I hope Huggle visits again, he said he will!

Writing Your Monster Poem Use the monster you have created along with your poem and plot ideas to compose a poem. Try to include at least one of the following: Alliteration, rhythm, simile, rhyme ?

WE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED WRITING YOUR MONSTER POEM TODAY!