Posted: September 27, 2011
Eng 111 - Lady Capulet's speech to Juliet is a form of an extended metaphor.
Your writing task tonight is to write an extended metaphor about yourself. What are YOU best compared to. Take the metaphor and draw it out - extend it to include the obvious and un-obvious characteristics of who YOU are as a human being (in all ways).
Half page, single spaced minimum.
Eng 112 - Complete the 11 study questions USING EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT/DETAILS FROM THE STORY. You have also been assigned the following:
Go back through the text of “The Black Cat” and find examples of: (QUOTE THEM)
a. Personification (3 examples)
b. Metaphor and simile (5 examples total)
c. Alliteration (3 examples)
d. Irony (find an example of all 3 types of irony and describe how it is ironic)
e. Symbolism (4 explained symbols – what does it represent?)
This is part 1 of the sheet handed out in class.