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Imagery: Using the passage from The Woman Warrior, answer the questions on the handout. Using the passage from The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, answer the questions on the handout.

Repetition ● Read two examples of Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street. Underline the repetition. What tone is created based upon the repetition used?

Sample Essay Review the sample essay. 1. Circle or Highlight the images in the essay. What kind of imagery is used? What tone is created from the use of the imagery? 2. Underline the use of repetition. What tone exists because of the use the repetition?

List Narrative The next three days you will be crafting your own list narrative. It is a one page essay sharing an aspect of your identity - one experience that you feel makes you who you are. Through the use of metaphors, repetition, and imagery, you will paint a picture of what you wish people truly understood about one experience you have had. As this is only one page, your narrative is due at the end of class on Wednesday. Stay on task the next three days so that you have NO homework in English 10 over Winter Break!

Brainstorm On a sheet of paper, brainstorm all of the experiences you have had. Is there something you have experienced or are experiencing that you wish people better understood? Do you think there are experiences you have had that you feel people have preconceived notions or stereotypes about how you are supposed to react or how you were supposed to feel? List what you wish people don’t or didn’t understand about your experience. List what you want people to know about the experience. Write about something you have experienced that you wish other people understood? Having an asthma attack, the embarrassment of not being able to do math in my head, gaining a sister in law, diagnosis of cancer… the list is endless.

Begin to Draft This essay is a list narrative, so I don’t have a specific outline for you to follow. You need to use the literary devices of imagery, repetition, and metaphor, but the structure is up to you.

Agenda - 12/20/16 Metaphors/Clichés Sample essay Work Time HW: Paper is due at the end of class on Wednesday to Canvas Learning Target: Use literary elements to provide images that explain an experience that illustrates your identity.

Metaphors The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; is is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances. - Aristotle We use “dead” metaphors all of the time without realizing it. One day, to say that someone sounds like a broken record may not remind anyone of albums or stereos. At that point, “broken record” will become a dead metaphor. People will forget about records, but the records will be in the language itself. Do you know where “mad as a hatter” or “going to hell in a handbasket” come from?

Metaphors “Love stinks” - The implication is that love is something that decays and smells bad: a rotting body; garbage; fumes. If you play with these ideas, you might find the following: Vultures have started circling our love; I passed by a Dumpster full of love and held my nose. Try to “wake up” these metaphors. They are dead, dying, or tired. Night fell. Light spilled into the room. He threw a tantrum.

Cliches Clichés while still recognizable as using metaphor or simile, are fatigued from too much use. These phrases bore readers. Clichés fail because they don’t reflect truth. They don’t reflect life’s complexity. You can often rescue a cliche by making it specific. I’m free as a bird. From the sky, the troubled world looks smaller. My oiled wings, my muscles, my hollow bones--I hardly feel them, they carry me so lightly.

Clichés are the plague. You never want to use Clichés in your writing. Let’s practice taking some overused turns of language and create images and descriptions. Rewrite the following phrases so they are no longer cliches: 1. A blanket of snow (describe a fresh snowfall). 2. He had two left feet (describe someone who is clumsy). 3. I was scared to death (describe what being incredibly scared feels like). 4. He was older than dirt (describe what an old person looks like).

BFR You will find the BFR on the yellow handout. It is not a requirement for you to complete it; however, in order to turn in your best work, please review it. It would be helpful for you to print out your essay and complete steps of the BFR on the printed copy. You will turn in your final copy to Canvas tomorrow.