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WU: Identity and Culture

How do you define culture?

What/who makes up your culture?

How do you define your identity? How much do you control your identity, and how much of it is out of your control or is “fate”?

Academic vocabulary:

1) Metaphor:

Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things directly. One thing “becomes” the other without the use of the word like, as, than, or resembles. A metaphor can be direct (love is a red, red rose), implied (my love bursts into bloom), or extended throughout a passage or work.

He’s the bee’s knees. Love is a red, red rose. [The future] It’s a ripe fruit ready to be eaten.

2) Simile: The comparison of two different objects using "like," or "as". The effect of the comparison enhances the reader's understanding of an idea.

Ex.: They were like two peas in a pod.

3) Imagery: When writing/word choice (diction) makes the reader picture something in his/her mind. We look for patterns of imagery.

How would you translate the following to make it have stronger imagery?

I was bored.

Read: "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" Ray Bradbury, 1949 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B270PU2LFF7bcWhHUVg1d1ZsMVk/view?usp=sharing

Discuss: Imagery, metaphor, and simile in the opening paragraphs, the power of names/symbols, the wind, fear/change.

We stopped reading after the first paragraph on pg. 3.

Partner work: Create a three-column chart in your reading/writing journal: Section 1: Metaphor Section 2: Simile Section 3: Imagery

Gather examples of each with a partner. We'll keep adding to this later.

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