What is the topic of the essay? “Many young adults find themselves job-searching, finding a place to live, or filing taxes for the first time with no idea how to do it. There are many skills required to be successful as an adult that teenagers have not been exposed to. To prepare young adults for the realities of employment, banking, taxes, and more, high-school students should be required to take a life-skills course before graduating.”

50 ! your poem must include the following: ● poetic form: lines and stanzas (not paragraphs! ) o your poem needs to be at least 10 lines long. ● sensory details/strong imagery o “paint a picture” and/or create an emotion with your words, word choice is key in poetry ● figurative language o include at least one of the following: metaphor, simile, and/or personification (click here for more info. on these) ● sound devices o include at least one of the following: repetition, rhyme, rhythm, meter, onomatopoeia, and/or alliteration (click here for more info. on these) ● labels o underneath your poem, include the words from the poem that represent the figurative language and sound devices and label them o examples: booming bombs - alliteration; like a firefly - simile you so