**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 –
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 questions.)
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 questions.)
I can compare this poem to Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers or
ReplyDeletethe poem how much wood would a woodchuck chuck If a woodchuck would chuck wood?
Hi Christopher,
ReplyDeleteGood effort, but just so you know this isn't homework.
I can compare this poem to a tougue twister like, "She sells sea shells by the seashore."
ReplyDeleteBecause it has a lot of words ending in "ry" and "ery."
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of the poem peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers because the all have the same 'p' sound. Like in this poem they had all the words ending in 'ottery'.
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I can compare it to " While I nodded, nearly napping, there suddenly came a tapping.
ReplyDeleteThis Poem can remind me of 3 tounge twisters/poems. 1. 'How much wood can a wood-chuck chuck if a wood-chuck can chuck wood.' 2. 'while I nodded, nearly napping, there suddenly came a tapping.' 3. 'She sells Sea-shells by the Sea-Shore.'
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I can compare this poem to tongue twisters like how much would cold a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Because they all repeat something over and over again.
ReplyDeleteI compare this poem to,
ReplyDeleteShe sells sea shells at the sea shore
because it basically says the same thing over and over again, just adding a different beginning to the word every time.
I can compare this poem to the Jabberwocky somehow because it is about mythical creatures and it has repitition of 'When the dragonry won the lottery' and the Jabberwocky had repitition of 'The Jabberwock, or Jabberwocky'.
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ReplyDeleteI really haven’t heard any poems like this one, except for some of the tongue twisters already mentioned above by other people.
ReplyDelete~Katherine
I've actually read a lot of poems like this, nonsensical, by the author, Shel Silverstein. He wrote the books 'Don't Bump the Glump', 'Every Thing On It' and other books.
ReplyDelete~Mackenzie
I don't know any other poems Beth
ReplyDeleteI can compare it to many other toungue twisters like how much would could a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood; could never say that one to save my life.
ReplyDeleteIt is very difficult to paticpate in the ans
ReplyDeleteI can compare...
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