Poetry 3

Plan Resources

Y5: Summer Term Poetry: Plan 3: The Power of Imagery

 Nouns and Noun Phrases

The old, battered ship sailed away.

A lonely seagull, with fading eyesight, stood on the cliff.

What is the head noun in each sentence?

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 Nouns and Noun Phrases

The old, battered ship sailed away.

A lonely seagull, with fading eyesight, stood on the cliff.

What is the head noun in each sentence?

Which words make up the noun phrase?

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 We can replace a
noun phrase with
Nouns and Noun Phrases a pronoun.

The old, battered ship sailed away.

A lonely seagull, with fading eyesight, stood on the cliff.

The words in the

What is the head noun in each sentence? noun phrase depend
on the head noun
and build on its
Which words make up the noun phrase? meaning.
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 How to build Noun Phrases
boat
Add words before the head noun:
The boat cut through the water.
The rusty old boat cut through the water.

Add words after the noun:

The boat, with a tall funnel, cut through the water.
The boat, with a tall funnel which puffed like an ancient dragon, cut through the
water.
Or you can do both at once:
The rusty old boat, with a tall funnel, cut through the water.
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 Using Evocative Language
The ship floated away.

The battered ship floated away.

The lonely, battered ship floated away.
The lonely, battered ship, on its last journey, floated away.
What could we write about
the noun to make the reader It is battered and broken.
feel sad? It is lost.
Can we choose a verb which It is on its last journey.
sounds sadder and with less It is lonely and unloved.
purpose?
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 Using Evocative Language
The ship floated away.

The battered ship floated away.

The lonely, battered ship floated away.
The lonely, battered ship, on its last journey, drifted away.
What could we write about
the noun to make the reader
feel sad?
Can we choose a verb which
sounds sadder and with less
purpose?
This combination of
expanded noun phrase
and powerful verb should
make our reader feel sad
about the ship!
It is battered and broken.
It is lost.
It is on its last journey.
It is lonely and unloved.
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 Using Evocative Language
The ship floated away.

The brave ship floated away.

The last brave ship floated away.
The last brave ship, like the spirit of hope, floated away.

How can we make our reader

feel excited about the noun? It is the last ship left.
It is brave.
Can we choose a verb which It is like the spirit of hope.
sounds more energetic? It is in a hurry.

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 Using Evocative Language
The ship floated away.

The brave ship floated away.

This combination of
The last brave ship floated away. expanded noun phrase
and powerful verb should
The last brave ship, like the spirit of hope, steamed away. make our reader feel
excited about the ship!

How can we make our reader

feel excited about the noun? It is the last ship left.
It is brave.
Can we choose a verb which It is like the spirit of hope.
sounds more energetic? It is in a hurry.

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 Making Complicated Information Concise

The lonely battered ship, on its last journey, drifted away forever.

The last brave ship, like the spirit of hope, steamed away.

There is quite a lot of information conveyed

You can give your reader lots of detail to evoke emotion.
in these expanded noun phrases.

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 Plenary

Expanding Noun Phrases

Expanding a noun phrase after the The ship, with round portholes, floated away.
head noun often uses The ship, from Iceland, floated away.
prepositions…
The ship, inside the iceberg, floated away.

The ship, which was now empty, floated away.

or relative pronouns.
The ship, that no one wanted, floated away.

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 Cohesion
A cohesive text: Cohesive devices are tools
• flows smoothly writers use to create flowing
writing with clearly linked
• links ideas events and descriptions.

You can use conjunctions

and adverbs to create
cohesion.

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Conjunctions link clauses. Time
The links create cohesion. Conjunctions when
while
Conjunctions can give since
meaning to the links, to do When I finally reached the craggy
as
with… cave, I could not believe my eyes. before
My heart beat with excitement
like a hammer because I had Place
found the lost treasure. where
Wherever I shone my torch, I wherever
could see sparkling jewels in joy
designed. As I took some
Cause
photographs, the flash made the because
gems glint as if they were so
winking at me. as
since

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 Time Linking Adverbs create
then Adverbs cohesion. They show…
soon
yesterday Place Manner
now Yesterday I had no clue that my there fast
first life was about to change forever. here surprisingly
Cheerfully, I sauntered to the luckily
Contrasts eventually
however
park when I saw them. There,
meanwhile grotesque, slimed, dumb,
nevertheless indifferent, the zombies
staggered out of shop doors and
Degree alleyways. Then I almost
nearly screamed. However, I knew that
very
this would prove deadly.
almost
quite

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