Imagery Guessing Game: Creatively Visualize and Guess the Topics through Poetic Language

1. Imaginative Imagery Guessing Game Introduction This presentation presents language in a very creative way. You will analyze the language and guess the topic through visualization created. Then, you are going to work on creating short imagery “poems” of your own. The purpose of your poem will be to make the reader visualize what you are trying to tell them by using more than one craft or technique. You must create the “image” with the words. The reader will actually have to GUESS what you could be talking about in your stanzas.

2. Imagery Guessing Game On the following slides you are going to play a guessing game. It is helpful to read the slides with your group out loud and more than one time. Use the data sheet to write two or three things that the author could be describing in their short poem. Jot two of the most significant phrases to you and what type of “craft” is being used (metaphor, simile, vivid description, personification, hyperbole, etc…) You may have to read some poems several times. They are very descriptive and full of creative word choices!

3. Poem #1 Transparent chunks of stone beating like fists on rooftops, pinging like darts off of windshields. Slapping and bouncing off the ground creating a carpet of cloudy beads. Be careful! Take cover! Hide! Showers of small, yet gigantic pebbles bombard in all directions, Never-ending torrents. Will it end soon?

4. Poem #2 A winking eye over the horizon sending endless rays of golden-orange and yellow blends Like a group of friends forming a team. Slowly, silently, sleekly, the eye opens, Revealing white brightness that washes the brilliant colors away, Sending the ball of fire high, higher, to the highest peak of the sky.

5. Poem #3 Spirals of soft curls spin, Bouncing like millions of tiny balls let loose in a frenzy. Colliding in soft bumps, no sounds to be heard as they hit, Yet they continue their game as if in a frenzy on a basketball court. The jump rope game continues as joyous laughter fills the air.

6. Poem #4 Reaching, reaching, reaching, Right and left, up and down, side to side, Creating tangles among themselves. Dropping gems of gold, orange and red to the ground as the gentle breeze puffs its cheeks, Blowing in spurts to unleash the colors.

7. Poem #5 Splashes of delicious fruit flavors gliding across the rough surfaces of my tongue, Flowing like liquid race cars competing for the finish line, Quenching the most intense of thirsts, Cooling and refreshing like a spring morning waking the world from its sound sleep.

8. Let's Review some techniques Simile: This kind of technique makes a direct comparison between two unlike subjects. The simile always uses the words "like" or "as". Example: "Waves crashing on the ocean look like knives; Sadness falls inside me like the rain; I wandered lonely as a cloud" Metaphor: This kind of a technique makes a direct comparison without using "like" or "as". Example: "Fog comes in on little cat's feet ; April is my girlfriend's face; All the world's a stage" Personification: This kind of a figure of speech gives human characteristics to a non human subjects. Example: "Father time; Whispering trees; Babbling brook"

9. What's an adjective and an adverb? Adjectives are words that describe nouns. They are usually put in front of the noun like: Hilarious laughter filled the entire auditorium like crackling thunder exploding in the sky. Adverbs, on the other hand, are words that describe verbs! These words usually end in “ly”. They really “spice” up the action in your phrase…….. Like……… Hilarious laughter suddenly filled the entire auditorium like crackling thunder exploding wildly in the sky. *Notice that the adverb can come in front of the verb or after the verb!

10. Final Task: Write some poems of your own using these techniques to describe something so well that your reader will be able to guess several things that it could be. Get a large index card. Your task is to create TWO “Guess what I am” Imagery poems. We will test them out after everyone has created one. Good luck!