Good Morning!

Please navigate to my page and access the

Google Form entitled “10 Minute Free-Write”

Directions are in the form; get to work!

Art exploration
in English
Who wrote about this painting?
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Who wrote about this painting? 3
Who wrote about this painting? 4
Who wrote about this painting? 5
Who wrote about this painting? 6
 Why did we just do that exercise?

- How am I going to connect These are the first things

with the reader? you have to consider and
- Who am I writing for? determine.

What do I do from there?

...by unlocking imagery in your writing!

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 On Unlocking Imagery:
Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one
thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a
description more emphatic or vivid

Metaphor: a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect,

directly refers to one thing by mentioning another; a thing
regarded as representative or symbolic of something else,
especially something abstract

Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or

human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the
representation of an abstract quality in human form

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“The town does not exist
except where one
black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman
into the hot sky.”

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“There is the Pollock,
white, harm
will not fall, his perfect
hand
and the many short
voyages.”

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 Find your groups!

Pick at least one of the poems on the handout and identify

any use of imagery that catches your eye by highlighting
them. Use a different color highlight for each of the
following: personification, metaphor, simile, and in general,
imagery. Please be sure to turn this in, it will be graded for
class participation today.

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 HOMEWORK:

Using your free-write from today, expand on

your thoughts. Try to compose a poem about the
poem you selected using sensory details,
similes, metaphors, and personification. Use the
examples I gave you in class today for
inspiration if you need it.

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