Monday, March 19, 2012

Creative Writing issues

Yesterday i had a chance to visit amazing lessons for teachers of English, which were denoted to Creative Writing issues. With other teachers we practiced writing of assays, fictional and non-fictional compositions, poetry. We considered different ways how to make lessons of writing interesting for students.

The most amusing lecture for me was about writing poetry.

At first, we analyzed types of poetry. Then - poetic devices. There are some of them:

Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds.
Metaphor - A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison
Onomatopoeia - The use of words which imitate sound.
Personification - A figure of speech which endows inanimate objects with human traits or abilities.
Repetition - the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.
Rhyme - The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.
Simile - A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than".

The next step was writing of our own poems. But we did it in very interesting and new for me way - everyone wrote the one line of the verse and passed to next person, who continued writing. So, in the end we had collective poems. This exercise can be successfully used in lessons of English.
And now I would like to demonstrate my result. It's no ideal, but it was the first attempt =)

A computer
A computer is like a knowledge,
knowledge of everything in the world,
stored together as in the cabinet,
kept just waiting to be opened.
To open the world
to all of your ides,
you can use it everywhere
and take it anywhere.
And sometimes without this thing is very difficult.
It is an opened door to future
So let us open it.


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