**Can I answer questions about the content and devices used in a poem?
The Day the Dragons Won the Lottery
they got staggery, swiggery, blotto-ry,
ziggery-zaggery, teetery, tottery,
proudly swaggery,
draggery flaggery,
loudly braggery. Rich or what-ery?
When the dragonry won the lottery.
Oops! A snaggery...Oh no nottery!
Just a tenner is all they gottery.
What a calamity! Sniffery snottery.
This is most certainly not what it ought to be.
Cursery, slaggery, weepery, watery.
Utterly agony. Heckery! Rottery!
When the dragonry won the lottery.
Answer the following questions – Work with a partner and answer the following questions in your Writer's Notebook
1. What do you think a ‘dragonry’ is?
2. What exciting event happens in the first verse?
3. Which words help the reader to sense the dragon’s excitement?
4. Which line describes the dragons moving in a ‘show off’ type of way?
5. How do the dragons feel in the second verse and why?
6. Which words describe how the dragons feel in the second verse?
7. Can you write down all the examples of alliteration in the poem?
8. What repetition has been used in the poem?
9. What does ‘calamity’ mean?
10.Compare this poem to a poem with similar features? (Post your answer to this question.)
1. I think the dragons are called the dragonry, because It sounds like a group and the suffix (ry), I think means a group. For examle machinery is about more than on piece of it. (It also might not because of the word robbery)
ReplyDelete2. The exciting event is the first verse is when the dragons won the lottery, and when they were really hyper, jumping and being crazy when they won it.
3. All of the words ending with ry and ery make the words exciting and interesting, because those words are made with nonsense.
4. Well, the dragons are bragging loudly (as it says in the poem) while acting crazy (like it shows in the picture, too.
5. They were sad because of the words like sniffery and snottery, they didn't win any money, just got a teener and were not rich like they thought they were going to be.
6. All of the words that describe that the dragons are sad in the second verse are the ones the end in ery, ony, rly and ity, which is mostly all of the words.
Thankyou soo much
DeleteI have not read any other poems with similar features or any other poems with alliteration. -Lucas
ReplyDeleteNo I cannot,I have not read any dragon poems other than this one about dragons,but out of all the poems I have read in my life,this is definitely one of the best!!
ReplyDelete~Noah
No, I can't relate this to any other poem, because I haven't read any dragon poems other than this one. It was an interesting and good poem though!
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