We have thoroughly enjoyed our first full week back at school and we have been really busy. This week, we wanted to share some of our English work with you. We have loved exploring poetry this week , through the book- Cloudbusting, by Malorie Blackman. Here are some examples of our masterpieces based around a fire. The ones we have chosen show how we have used repetition and similes as poetic devices:
Fire is…
Like a herd of cows
Like a storm crashing
Like an angry bull
Like a steam room
Like a hot summer day
Like a red diamond
Like a rushing stream of swelling lava
Ashton, 5MW
Fire is…
Like a volcano explosion
Like an angry storm
Like a rocket launching
Like a toxic bomb
Like a firework of doom
Like a spark of poison
Like a tsunami in the forest
Lexi, 5MW
As life-ending as a bulldozer rampaging through your family home
As heart-crushing as eternal torture, tearing you to shreds
As fierce as a tank storming towards you
As consuming as an ash cloud from a volcano suffocating you of life
As destructive as depression engulfing all your happy thoughts
Mason 5GT
I am as frightful as the ongoing pit of worry
that engulfs your every thought
I am as heart-crushing as losing
everything you’ve ever loved
I am as vile as a bee’s fresh poison
instantly entering your frail body
I am as fearsome as the soul-stealing Grim Reapers
waiting to take you next
Pollyanna 5GT
The flames…
Like an oppressive, crimson asteroid spitting in fury
Like a tsunami over your surroundings
Like a cosmic flame raining down on earth
Like a rising cloud of mist filling the atmosphere
the burning trees fell like ashes falling to the ground
By Will 5LS
Fire is…
Like a flood as deep as an ocean
Like a billowing blanket that covers your entire soul
Like falling ashes to the hot, steamy ground- burning like an incinerator
By Eva 5LS