Fruit Poetry

1. Fruit Poetry Writing a poem using similes and metaphors

2. Simile • Comparison using “like” or “as” • Ex: Ms. Tucker is short like a dwarf

3. Metaphor • Direct comparison • Ex: He eats so much, he is a pig!

4. Fruit Poem • Use your 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell) • Create both similes and metaphors in your poem • Underline similes one time and metaphors two times

5. Beginning of each line… • 1st line of 1st stanza: “On the outside…” (now create at least 4 lines of similes and metaphors using your 4 senses (not taste) to describe the outside of your fruit) • 1st line of 2nd stanza: “On the inside…” (now create at least 4 lines of similes and metaphors using your 4 senses (not taste) to describe the inside of your fruit) • 1st line of 3rd stanza: “Taste the_______and…” OR “One bite of the _____ and you…” (now finish this line using similes and/or metaphors)

6. Watermelon On the outside… It smells like a sweet bouquet of fresh flowers It looks like a green balloon. It is a hollow tree trunk when you thump it It’s smooth as a pebble. On the inside… It smells sweet like apple pie It is light red jello left out overnight Its sound is a boot being pulled out of mud It feels cold like icecream Taste the watermelon and your tastebuds burst like an overfilled balloon.