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Poetry Imagery Creation

Imagery uses words that help a reader imagine what they can see, hear, smell, taste or feel. Read the short poem, then solve the clues and create your own vivid lines.

The Seaside Surprise

At dawn, the silver sea shivered.\nA salty breeze brushed my cheek.\nGulls cried above the red-flowered tree,\nwhile warm sand slipped between my toes.\nA wave rushed in with a foamy whisper,\nand left a shell shining at my feet.

1.What does imagery help a reader do? Choose the best answer.

Spot the poet's spelling mistakes
Imagine a scene using the senses
Count the words in each line

2.In “the silver sea shivered”, which sense is used most clearly?

Sight
Sound
Taste

3.Find one phrase in the poem that helps you imagine a sound. Write it down.

4.Which words tell you how the sand feels on the speaker’s feet?

5.Match each poem phrase to the sense it mostly uses.

salty breeze
gulls cried
red-flowered tree
warm sand

sight
smell or taste
touch
sound

6.The poem says the sea “shivered” and a wave had a “whisper”. Are these ordinary actions for the sea and wave, or does the poet give them human-like actions?

They are human-like actions that make the sea seem alive
They are instructions for the reader
They are rhyming words

7.Complete the line with a sensory phrase: “The wind past the tall grass.” Make your words help a reader imagine what the wind does or sounds like.

8.Choose a New Zealand place for a poem: a beach, bush track, garden, lake or another place. Write two details you could notice there using different senses.

9.Make this plain sentence more vivid by adding at least two sensory details: “Rain fell on the garden.”

10.Write two lines of your own poetry about a place. Include at least two senses and choose words that help a reader picture being there.