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Deepening
Teachable Terms
Image: a word (or more than one word) appealing to at least one of our senses;
an image deals, then, with reader response. Of our five senses (visual, auditory,
olfactory, tactile, gustatory), the visual is the strongest.
Motif: a repeated pattern of any type within a work. Note that an image pattern IS a
motif, but a motif is NOT always an image pattern.
Purpose
We’ll take a look through a microscope at our passage to better understand the
writer’s techniques.
Procedure
•Mark with a different colour each type of image/image pattern/motif predominant
in the passage.
•Based on your color marking, ask these questions:
-Is one color predominant? Why?
-Is there some logical progression of imagery/motifs, from one type to
another?
-Is the progression logical?
-Why? Why not?
-How do the imagery/motifs reinforce and/or illustrate the content of the
passage?
-Is a specific tone created by the marked material?
•Based on your answers to these questions and any others you think appropriate,
CODE each color marked with Inferences you draw about the use of that particular
image/ image pattern/motif.
Poetry Craft Lesson
Deepening
Two Sisters of Persephone, Lake Como (or any poem rich in imagery)
2. Read Silently
Colour it- and then look for other examples of this detail- colour the same
colour
“problem” - want to use the same detail for two different colours?
7. Create a legend for your colours; categorize and name- then share the
patterns
Assignment / Connection
Class discussion: What do you see??
Three Questions :