Analogies and Anecdotes

Share your awful contribution to a work of significant literary power!




In journals: Describe how the author's use of language is especially appealing. What techniques do you notice in the way they used language? What techniques did you use to "ruin" it?



Classwork:  1.Read the first letter in "Letters to a Young Artist," by Anna Deavere Smith.
                   2. On a separate sheet of paper (your own paper), please complete question #1, #5, #7, #8.
                   3. Please develop your own analogy/anecdote for what Smith calls "stepping out"
                   4. Note the location of the analogies and anecdotes in relation to the particular ideas they clarify.                       What do you notice?

HW: Complete first journal entry--TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED, TIMES NEW ROMAN, 12pt. FONT. (just your name works for a heading) 3/4-1 page (you may exceed this, but within reason)