Class Exercise

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. 

Crazy/cat, red/robin, fat/bag, full of food, feeling foolish, sassy/classy, strong/soldier/, chocolate/crumbs /seven/squirrels, /write/words

2. 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.

Partying is crazy. He is awful. Love is painful.  Gave Over. It’s the end of the universe. Marriage is a knot.

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.

LYRICS

 Leave me its ok, I can handle it

You’ve do it on the past, it’s not the first time

Before I would always take you back

But now guess what?

 Not this time.


I hate that you never cared.

Boy, I can do it on myself from now on, I’m only looking forward now.

Not back.

I don’t know why but you always do this

Knowing all the pain I have, you do it again

I can’t feel my heart; it’s broken into millions of pieces

I hate that you never cared.

In life sometimes you win and sometimes you loose

You can’t have it all in this world

But today I lost.

While I hate it, you love it.

I hate that you never cared.

Hey! You know what?

Someone will be waiting for you soon.

But it ain’t me do you know who?

That well known Karma.

I hate that you never cared.

What goes around comes around.

But life moves on, doesn’t  it?

This time I don’t want you back

And you better believe it

I hate that you never cared.

Today, I’m erasing you from my life,

This time it won’t be for only one day, or one week.

But for the rest of my life,

You will never exist again.

Today, it's the end of you and I.

I hate that you never cared.