ENGL 495: Multigenre Literacy in Global Context
Poetry: Creative
Poetry: Creative
Complete the following creative writing (poetry) exercises.
1. Alliteration and Assonance Lists
Create a list of word pairs and phrases that are built around alliteration or assonance. Remember, alliteration is when words in close proximity start with (or contain) the same consonant sound (as in pretty picture). Assonance is when words in close proximity echo vowel sounds (bent pen). Try to come up with at least ten of each.
1. crazy cat
2. sad song
3. right flight
4. bad fad
5. can’t rant
6. slick Rick
7. sour skittles
8. damp dog
9. dirty Dan
10. flower power
11. hot shot
12. zany zebra
13. mellow yellow
14. mighty mouse
15. won’t worry
16. ask Allison
17. night flight
18. stable cable
19. worry wart
20. quiet queen
A quiet queen murmured a sad song
As the damp dog swallowed the mighty mouse
“Oh slick Rick cannot please me!” she cried
So dirty Dan quieted that worry wart
With his hot shot skills and a bag of sour skittles
2. Metaphors for Life
Make a list of significant life events – birth, death, graduation, marriage, having children, starting your own business. Next, come up with a metaphor for each of these events. Remember: a metaphor is when we say one thing is another thing. A simile is when we say one thing is like another thing.
Metaphor: Life is a dance.
Simile: Life is like a box of chocolates (as a metaphor, this would be life is a box of chocolates)
Tip: Choose metaphors that are visually interesting. Metaphors for life as a dance or box of chocolates are both concrete and easy for readers to visualize.
Birth is a death sentence
Birth is like a blooming flower
Death is an open door
Death is like a homecoming dance
Graduation is a terrible lie
Graduation is like a kick in the ass
Marriage is a foot that found its shoe
Marriage is like a bear constantly clawing at a beehive trying to consume what’s left on the inside
Having children is an open wound that you love to smell
Having children is like eating an apple and realizing it’s bruised
Starting your own business is a sure fire way to becoming a greedy asshole.
Starting your own business is like kicking yourself in the genitals.
Birth is a death sentence
With each contraction you become aware
That life is a stopwatch
Constantly counting down your seconds with each
Tick Tick Tick Tick
You are four ticks closer
To an inevitable end
But do not fear a tragedy
Death is an open door
Taking you beyond
To where we know not
3. Lyrics and Musicality
Choose a catchy song that you enjoy and rewrite the lyrics, but stick to the rhythm and meter. Try to go way off topic from what the original lyrics were about. You can play the song while you work the exercise or search for the lyrics online and use those as your baseline. The idea is to get your mind on the musicality in your writing.
(Original Song: “Tuna in the Brine”)
I swallow tuna fish whole while everyone’s hole
Gets sewn up
Yet you stuck around
In my room and straddled the polar bear’s neck
That’s nesting
The hound in the farthest corner is near
Eats all of my fingers raw off so
Please leave your heart to feed it
You’ll have to fake another lie and chew another pill
And empty your lunch like a kid against their will
Grab everything that you are and feel free to
Tamper the sacred fat bible
Cause you’ll forget it all son if you come at all
To keep your word you’ll have to lose, lose, and lose
Forcing the truth seeing the colors but you see
Nothing is everything
Lusting for change yet changing nothing
Feeble imbeciles are ruling everything
It’s time for your pill like a kid against their will
For my pregnant eyes are mind fucked permanently
To all of the people who keep drinking the spit
From my mouth
You’re feeding my ID
Yet you still take it rough
You’ll have to fake another lie and chew another pill
And empty your lunch like a kid against their will.
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