I am Vertical

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11th Grade

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Becky Arlin

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Writing Strategies in "I am Vertical",

by Sylvia Plath

Personification

Metaphor

Imagery

Characterization

Multiple Select

Which writing strategies are used? (check ALL that apply)

"I am vertical, but I would rather be horizontal."

Metaphor

Imagery

Characterization

Personification

"I am vertical, but I would rather be horizontal."

Characterization - she's describing how she feels about life
Imagery - we can imagine horizontal and vertical as opposites
NOT a metaphor because she's not comparing herself to anything

Multiple Choice

What writing strategy is used?

"The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.

I walk among them, but none of them are noticing."

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

"The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.

I walk among them, but none of them are noticing."

Personification-flowers don't usually notice things, people do
NOT a Metaphor because nothing is being compared

Multiple Select

Which writing strategies do you see? (check ALL that apply)

"I am not a tree with my root in the soil sucking up minerals and motherly love so that each March I may gleam into leaf"

Metaphor

Rhyme

Imagery

Characterization

"I am not a tree with my root in the soil sucking up minerals and motherly love so that each March I may gleam into leaf"

Metaphor - by saying she is NOT a tree, she is comparing herself to a tree
Imagery - the reader can picture a tree changing and blooming
Characterization - the narrator is telling us about herself

Writing Strategies in "I am Vertical",

by Sylvia Plath

Personification

Metaphor

Imagery

Characterization

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