Sunday, 21 June 2015

Descriptive Language Tools

Check out these amazing annotated samples of our current literacy learning.  As preparation for our Term 3 Production and inquiry into Visual Language and the Dramatic Arts, we have been  learning to apply poetic devices to make powerful descriptions.
                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                

Key Colours
Emotive language = pink
Adjectives= Mint
Onomatopoeia= Purple

                                   

                                                                 Adjectives
         Emotive language                  Fragrant, Crisp and cool
↘            Autumn          ↙
Autumn days are fresh, the air is fragrant, crisp and cool.
As the leaves detach from the safety of the branches, their
colour begins to change into an auburn tawny shade.
In the distance you can hear the sound of laughter, the crackling of the leaves.
                                                             
                                                                Onomatopoeia                                  
By Chloe




Metaphors=  blue
simile= pink
Emotive language= green
personification= Turquoise
Wow Words= lavender




Winter
‘Winter in Russia is the white wolf  of suffering and each day we its howl and fear that it will run us down’.

Russia in winter leaves people to defend themselves, defeated by the endless snow, the malice of the howling wind.

the people walk on when they can, the old people die and there tears freeze against there cheek.  Under the bleak firmament where the stars have gone and have given no hope escaping this rough winter.

When it snowed although it looks beautiful from a distance, when up close it’s cold and harsh, buries people under mounds of snow waiting for death to come to there door.  

Hailing is like a big ball of marbles made out of cement that cracks when it lands on human flesh and somehow melts on the on the ground of this ghostly landscape.  

But snow is the only thing they can drink when melted.  When it's snowing it feels like god have given up on us telling to go back from where we came from pelting us with hailstones and making our clothes wet with snow making it freeze in the howling wind
By Anthea Teh :-)

Simile= Green
Metaphors= Purple
Emotive language=Blue
Personification=Pink

       Winter

The winter season is like the tree leaves that  fall of in the mighty win. Winter is like a person whose hair move like a tree Slightly swinging, shifting. (but not that much).The tree’s sway like hair that will blow away if a big gust of the wind that is sweeping through and the tree it will be like that too.
BY: PUPEA :)    


    

Renee’s Keys:
Adjectives = Blue
Similes = Purple
Emotive language = Red
Personification=Yellow
Metaphors = Green

Spring

In our NZ spring, the rain pours down as if in a shower, as the wind whips everything in its way.  It bangs as it hits sides of tree's, causing leaves to shatter on the ground, like a falling water droplet.  The wind swoops up anything from the ground as it whizzes by.  In the air there is a scent of nature surrounding you.  When you look up, you can see airborne objects floating around as if haunted by a ghost.  The flowers and branches sway back and forward like a strand of girls hair being carried in the wind.  This is my NZ spring.   


SUMMER
Summer in the Philippines is hot and dry the ground cracks like a crunch of an apple. The hot is so intense that you can hear the trees crying of thirst days and days past no fruit, no water to grow rice and no trees. The temperature goes higher and higher.
By Emilio

                                                


                                       summer         

                similes   

               metaphor       

               wow words




The morning breeze  from the summer night  . Pink sunsets it looks like pink marshmallows in the sky. the sun is tempting to have a quick dip just lying in that refreshing water  . almost as there's a tropical island in your backyard ! . you take your last breath of summer then its autumn summer flies fast when you're having fun .




                                                              Anna's keys:
                                                ……… = Repetition of sounds/Alliteration
                                               ………. =   Similes
                                               …….. = personification
                                                              ………= vivid verbs

WINTER By:  Anna
When the first flake of snow hits your nose you know winter is coming.
She looked down to her toes and saw they were turning blue sinking into the white snow.
She sees the snowmen wave her goodbye  as she drops to the ground.




personification
rhyming
simile
descriptive
onomatopeae
Imagery
Adverb

It has been a windy spring day,the wind carried the leaves swift like a puma hunting down its prey. Through the dense clouds, the sun shined down trying to find the lonely town. The faint patt of the rain faded into silence while the roar of motor engines filled his ears. Planes wave goodbye as the clouds swallow them whole.
By Matt
Key:
Metaphors: YELLOW
Personification: LIGHT BLUE
Alliteration: LIGHT GREEN
Vivid Verb: PURPLE
Awesome Adjective: ORANGE
Time Clause: PEACH
Mix: GREY
Adjectival Clause: RED


Autumn Seasons Description by Michael Lau
In bloom, golden, at its feet dappled leaves. This is what Autumn is at first. Singing its melody. People and animals treading its carpet restore their emotion. Crisp, fresh sea air bringing life. Although in harmony, the leaves mourn, falling off the tree, for the heralds of Winter have sent their message. Men bringing tools. Crushing land and life. Man and sickle, in devious harmony, blaze a trail into virgin farms, destroying the crops of Autumn.  Skies changing maliciously, commanding millions of tears to fall, ending the life of the Golden Civilisation.  The fresh, white frost, although pretty, is no more cruel than its creators. Protecting and killing altogether, the dying last words of the flowers, horrendously harassed here in their resting place. Plants crushed in snow, yet embedded in frost. Preservers of plants, yet altogether advancing on victims prone to cold. Heralding Winter, the grand bitter, freezing terror.
Michael Lau©



Vaitoa’s key colours
adjective
noun
Seasons
verbs


                                     WINTER'S A GRUB!
     Cold backs turn on Summer
Ripping leaves off branches in Autumn. Floods, winds and storms we overcome. Winter is necessary sometimes, usually it’s an ugly, annoying grub that has no respect whatsoever. It’s a criminal, it’s attitude is unpredictableexpectations are maximum.  


Spring
The time of happiness and freedom,when the sun melts the freezing whiteness.Animals escape the frozen caves and run into the melting snow. If only this could last forever. Soon the darkness will fade and the light burnish the sky. A whole new world has been born.c

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Onomatopoeia:------------
Personification:----------------

Adjectives:----------------
Adjectival Clause:----------------
Vivid Verb:-----------------
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                                           A damp puddle, once a thriving metropolis,
converts into white dust on the ghostly landscape on the we called home. Malicing howls coming from the white wolves of winter , they plunder whenever they have the choice, fairytales now nightmares. The wolf's blow, blow and blow till the houses fall down, the old ones can not stand up, there fear running them down, the white wolves of winter were too late, or in this case too early…..   




Liam’s Season description
Poetic devices:
Personification: Blue
Simile: Pink
Comparison: Red
Adjective: Purple
Noun: Green
verb: turquoise
The Winter has swiftly gone and Spring has arrived.  The snow melts to liquid as the breeze carries on.  Streams begin flowing like a baby first learning to walk.  The days are getting slightly warmer nothing like the previous season.  



Tanish’s description®
    







Meggy’s description.  
Autumn
Key:
Similes= Yellow  
Disco words= Pink
Adjectives= Blue
Metaphors= Green
Verbs= Purple

AUTUMN

The one season out of all four, I can open my scraped wooden light blue door, and be overwhelmed by every single colour in my hazel eye.
Every leaf covering my wham green grass, looks like fire.
With all the colours such as
Orange, red, brown, and a few patches of lime green.
When I look up,
I see red, brown and orange leafs falling,
Large leafs grabbing hold to my long messy blonde hair.
And the smaller leafs are getting tangled in my eye lashes.
As anyone would,
I took a large step

Summer in Wellington - By Josh

Summer mornings feel majestic , the grasp of the cold and misty air melted by the heroic light and heat of the morning star .
The midday is when the heat orbe shows it’s full power , it burns
and stings everything with it’s once marvellous light , he  feels ambitious it makes the most of its high placing .   Sunsets the beautiful moment when the light king lets out his fading blast of light  the time when the clouds flame in orange & pink glory like the scales of Koi and  the sky slows a purple smudged with orange flame.   by Josh  
WOW words
personification
metaphor
descriptive language
 






Summer
Summer is a picture.
Sunlight spills from the sky, showering us in the golden flow.  Burning embers roll across, setting the sky ablaze staining the blue.  As the illuminated sun sinks from his place.  Still, silent sea retires from the playful  winter days, high waves crashing down, now lie blank..  Summer is alive and every day filling the world with a little more sunlight.


Adjectives = pink
Adverbs = Blue
Verbs = yellow
Personification = purple
Metaphors = green




Winter!
The windswept bleakness frozen in time, snow the snowflakes dancing in the wind. The leafless trees waving in the wind like arms flailing in despair as  they are shrouded in snow,  the white reign of winter ends in puddles the remnants pave way for a new reign the archives of ice conseil many secrets a race of people a civilization thriving in the cold this reign will not stay untouched it will lead way to a new year.  

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                Spring
  Frost slowly melting.
Water drips from the frozen dark tree.
Flowers twitching wanting to move, thawing from the weeks of cold, harsh weather.
Silence, nothing but silence like you’ve been left behind.
Chirping, faint.
Cold, frozen, still, everything is still water drips on your head while you shiver and shake.
Shreds of light shine through the dark clouds, warmth flowers open again. Ice shining like silver in the sunlight.
Metaphors Personification  Similes  

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