A time I persevered and was successful

During the Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging period, my CCA teacher told us that only those who practised hard and could dance properly would be selected to participate in the SYF. As I was only a P4 pupil at that time, I wanted to be part of the team that goes for SYF as it would be the first competition that I participated in. My CCA teacher was not going to pick everybody to participate in the SYF. My friends and I were very nervous as we wanted to be selected so badly. We trained a lot ever since the teacher made the announcement. During recess time, we would take at least ten minutes to practise the dance steps. During our CCA training, when our instructor gave us breaks, we would just take a few sips of water and continue practising. Due to our hard work, we finally bared the fruits of our labour. We were selected to be part of the SYF team! Even after we were selected, we never stopped training. Instead of having CCA practice once a week every Monday, we had practice on Wednesday too, making our practices twice a week. All of the dancers persevered and on the day of our SYF performance, we gave our best and put in all of our efforts. A few weeks later, we received our results, we had achieved a Silver for our performance! Although we did not achieve our target of Gold with Honours, we were happy that we at least managed to maintain the Silver achieved from the previous years.

Homework on Suspense - Sabrina

The suspenseful movie that I have watched is "The Exorcism of Emily Rose". It was about how Emily Rose died during an exorcism and the people involved were called out for a trial. The people involved were defending themselves by telling the story of what had happened to Emily. The suspenseful part was when Emily was alone at night. She would have episodes, where she would feel like she had been taken over by a demon. Those episodes would usually occur at 3 a.m. When those episodes occur, we would not know what would happen to Emily. We would be afraid that she would get injured. When the exorcism was performed, we would not know if the exorcism would be successful or if Emily would survive it. This causes the audience to worry for her safety. The sound effects and the pauses in the movie causes the audience to always be on edge.

Poetic Devices

Rhyme

The Life Of A Cupcake

They put me in the oven to bake.

Me a deprived and miserable cake.

Feeling the heat I started to bubble.

Watching the others I knew I was in trouble

Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-life-of-a-cupcake#ixzz3P3ScsTZu

Alliteration

Slippery Sloppery

A slippery sloppery slipping snail

Slithered slimed and slid on the floor

Feeling hurried harried hungry and helpless

As starlings screeched spiraled and saw

That slippery sloppery slipping snail

Who slithered slimed and slid on the floor

A fluttering of feathers fell frighteningly fast

Meant that slippery sloppery slipping snail

Who slithered slimed and slid was no more.

Source:http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/best/alliteration

Onomatopoeia

The Precocious Teapot

The teapot whistled at the lovely young pot

She came to a boil at this unfortunate shot

When the pan saw what happened, he began to sizzle

The pot was his cousin and it made him grizzle

The faucet joined in with a whoosh of its water

It seems that the pot was his only daughter

The teapot was humbled and expressed his regret

It was an unfortunate gaffe he’d rather forget

Source: http://www.mywordwizard.com/poems-with-onomatopoeia.html

Simile

Chocolate Cake

Friends are like chocolate cake

You can never have too many.

Chocolate cake is like heaven -

Always amazing you with each taste or feeling.

Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces.

Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it.

Source: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-simile-poems.html

Hyperbole

Summertime is Here

My tongue is a piece of sandpaper

I’m dissolving into a puddle

I want to dive into a snowdrift

Though I’m sure that would befuddle

Open me up, my organs are cooked

I think I’m now well done

You can fry an egg upon my brow

As I melt away in the sun!

Source: http://www.mywordwizard.com/hyperbole-poems.html

Personification

Snow Flake

A fragile winter butterfly

Flutters from the sky

So soft and yet her heart

Is cold and made of ice

But if I warm it

She will melt and die

Source: http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/best/personification

Symbolism

A light exists in Spring By Emily Dickinson

A light exists in Spring

Not present on the year

At any other period—

When March is scarcely here

Source: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-symbolism-in-poetry.html

Metaphor

The Rose

The sun went away

The sky went black

Up came the wind

I fell on my back

It started to rain

I began to sink

Then I lifted my head

And took a drink

I perked myself up

And said "please don't cry"

And wiped off my petals

Until they were dry

The clouds soon parted

And out came the sun

The beauty in me

Has only begun

Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/youre-beautiful-as-yourself-the-rose#ixzz3P3qltBeb

Free Verse

Disappointments by Vivian Gilbert Zabel

Every life has a room

where memories are stored:

A box of special occasions here,

Shelves of shared laughter there.

But back in the shadows

Lurks a trunk locked tight,

Not to be opened and searched.

There hide disappointments

Which darken every heart

Source: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-free-verse-poems.html

Imagery

The Shark

His body was tubular

And tapered

And smoke-blue,

And as he passed the wharf

He turned,

And snapped at a flat-fish

That was dead and floating.

And I saw the flash of a white throat,

And a double row of white teeth,

And eyes of metallic grey,

Hard and narrow and slit.

Then out of the harbour,

With that three-cornered fin

Shearing without a bubble the water

Lithely,

Leisurely,

He swam—That strange fish,

Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,

Part vulture, part wolf,

Part neither—for his blood was cold

Source: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-imagery-poems.html

Allusion

Flames

If sorrow cloaks the surface of your soul

And chills the warmth that turns your wishes cold,

Unchain the hidden anguish in your hold,

Releasing tethered truths that must be told

Source: http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/best/allusion

True Me Poem

My real name is Sabrina.
A name I wish to be called is bookworm because I love to read. 
The animal that’s inside of me is an eagle because it is my favourite animal. 
The object that’s inside my heart is my family and friends because I can rely on them to help me. 
The word on my forehead is piano because I love playing it. 
The sound that I love is music because it is relaxing. 
The smell that I love is food because it’s amazing. 
My favourite time of day is night time because I get to sleep or rest. 
My parents always says to me, “Quickly finish your homework.”