Then you each wrote a poem about yourself as a writer, trying to use figurative language like Wilbur does in his poem. I gave you a list of nouns and asked you to use 1 or more of them in each line of a 6-8 line poem.
Next I gave you this handout as a way of looking at Roy's use of figurative language in the opening pages of the novel. One side of the handout is a matching game, the other side are the answers.
Lastly we looked at the opening pages of the novel together to explore the ways in which Roy incorporates figurative language into her descriptions of the setting and introductions of the characters.
