Reading Assignment: Please finish the book Jacob Have I Loved, and if you get the time, read the first ten pages of Sounder.
Writing Assignment; Please come up with and post 2 sentences for each of the following:
1. personification
2. metaphor
3. simile
4. oxymoron
Ideally, I'd like you to use these literary devices to describe characters in the book, for example, "As Sara huddled in the bedroom with her family and the captain, the hurricane screamed its warning about the disaster that lay ahead."
But if that seems too difficult, your sentences can address any topic you choose, e.g. "The red light in the distance winked its warning, but I saw it too late and could not stop in time."
If all else fails, look the terms up on the web and find two interesting examples for each. You can post your examples any time you want. But please send them to me in an e-mail as well, by Saturday morning at the latest, so I can put them into a file, and we can discuss them in class. Let me know too if it's o.k. to attach your name to the example. Make sure to label your examples, indicating personification, oxymoron, etc.