I can write a kenning poem

The Iron Man 

Ground shaker
Fear maker
Sky toucher
Metal cruncher
Movement watcher
Cliff faller
Rock scraper
Twilight dweller

For today's task, we will be writing our own poem about The Iron Man. It will be a short poem that will describe the character and actions of The Iron Man. We will do this bit by bit before putting our poem together at the end of the lesson.

Task One - verbs

For task one, we need to create a list of verbs (doing words) that describe The Iron Man's movements and actions. You can spend 5 minutes listing these. If you run out of ideas, use the link below to an online thesaurus to help you to find similar words (synonyms) to the ones that you already have.

Examples

crunch, munch, smash, fall, climb, stomp, destroy, 

Task Two - Nouns

For this task, we are going to do the same as above but with nouns (objects). The can be body parts of The Iron Man or could be the objects that he interacts with in the story, such as the rocks, tractors or the cliff. You could even include nouns to describe how he makes the farmers feel. Spend 5 minutes creating your list.

Examples:

cliff, ground, foot, tractor, metal, fear, 

Task Three - The poem

A kenning poem contains a two word phrase which describes the action of the subject. Read over the example at the top of the page. What do you notice?

Did you see that each line contains a descriptive phrase. This consists of a noun and a verb. 

ground (noun) + smash (verb)  = ground smash

You will have already noticed that each line also contains the suffix -er. We will add that to our line 

ground smasher

You are now ready to write your own poem.

1.Match up the nouns and verbs that go together to create your poem.

2 .Make sure each verb ends in -er.

 3. Don't forget that each new line (verse) starts with a capital letter.

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