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• Learning Objective: To understand and explore the use of personification in the poem ‘City Jungle’.
AIMS:
- To understand the meaning of Personification
- To read and discuss the ‘City Jungle’.
- To write our own poems using personification.
Starter: Read through the poem ‘City Jungle’ by Pie Corbett and underline any words or phrases
that stand out to you.
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What is personification?Personification : when things or objects are
referred to as if they are human.
Things that are personified are described as though they have senses, moving actions and feelings like humans and animals.
e.g. The paper was dancing through the air.
The stones were skipping along the pavement.
The wind whispered.
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CITY JUNGLE: Rain splinters town.
Lizard cars cruise by; their radiators grin.
Thin headlights stare shop doorways keeptheir mouths shut.
At the roadsidehunched houses cough.
Newspapers shuffle by,hands in their pockets.The gutter gargles.
A motorbike snarls;Dustbins flinch.
Streetlights bare their yellow teeth.
The motorway’s Cat black tongue lashesacross the glistening tarmac of the night.
By Pie Corbett
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Title: Personification in ‘City Jungle’
1. The poet is describing the City as though it is a ___________
2.How does the poet describe : -
• A motorbike
• The streetlights
3. Write down one example of alliteration from the poem?
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CITY JUNGLE:Rain splinters town.
Lizard cars cruise by; their radiators grin.
Thin headlights stare shop doorways keeptheir mouths shut.
At the roadsidehunched houses cough.
Newspapers shuffle by,hands in their pockets.The gutter gargles.
A motorbike snarls;Dustbins flinch.
Streetlights baretheir yellow teeth.
The motorway’s Cat black tongue lashesacross the glistening tarmac of the night.
By Pie Corbett
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Rain splinters town
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Their radiators grin
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Shop doorways keep their mouths shut
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At the roadside hunched houses cough
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Newspapers shuffle by
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The gutter gargles
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A motorbike snarls
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Streetlights bare their yellow teeth
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The motorway’s cat-black tongue lashes across the glistening black tarmac night
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Personification• Write your own personification poem
(think of setting, each choose an object and personify it and then put the sentences together to make a poem)
• Sounds: screamed, screeched, whispered, yelled,
Movement: ran, danced, skipped,
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• What is Personification?
• What have you learnt today about the poem ‘City Jungle’?