Te Ika Descriptive Language
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Te Ika a MauīDescriptive Language
🎯 WALT: We Are Learning To use descriptive language to create imagery in our writing.
Success Criteria: I can identify and create similes, metaphors, and personification. I can choose precise adjectives and verbs.
📝 Part 1: Brainstorming Descriptive Words
The Ocean: ________________________________
Maui's Fishhook: ________________________________
The Giant Fish (Te Ika): ________________________________
Maui himself: ________________________________
How the ocean moves: ________________________________
How Maui pulls: ________________________________
How the fish struggles: ________________________________
🎨 Part 2: Categorising Figurative Language
a) "The ocean roared with anger"
b) "Maui's fishhook was like a gleaming crescent moon"
c) "The giant fish was a mountain rising from the depths"
Write a simile (using 'like' or 'as'):
Write a metaphor (saying something IS something else):
Write personification (giving human qualities to non-human things):
⭐ Writing Activity - Create a Poem to show the key events of Te Ika a Mauī using descriptive language.Make sure you include simile, metaphor, personification and precise adjectives and verbs!
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