MetaphorsThe Help

Warm UpO How is Minny's chocolate pie like the Civil

Rights Movement?

O How is Skeeter's Father's pick-up like the African American neighborhood in Jackson?

O How are the toilets on Hilly's lawn like a painting?

ProblemO As the novel progressed, Skeeter

found it hard to fit in with her childhood friends. 

O Have you ever experienced this sort of isolation or known someone who has?

Brainstorm!O Can you name some forms of

creative expression?O Now, how are these creative

expressions like an action or emotion?

O For instance, how is a fashion show similar to the emotion of greed? How is it similar to the celebratory action of doing a cartwheel?

Lights, Camera, Action!O Think of your five senses.  O What does crying taste like?  O What does celebrating smell like?  O Does pity sound a certain way?  O If you are greed, how do you feel

about yourself?

Oxy… what?O Oxymoron: is a figure of speech that

combines contradictory terms. O A term that consists of two words that are in

conflict in some way.O Examples: artificial grass, bitter sweet, clear

as mud, jumbo shrimp, firm pillow, fried ice cream….

O Can you think of one with our list of actions/emotions?

O Post a short free verse poem using your oxymoron to my twitter page!

Oxymoron AnalogyO Take the oxymoron you created and

apply it to something else.O For example, jumbo shrimp could be

applied to a jet airplane. “The jet airplane was enormous compared to a one-propeller plane, but it is tiny compared to today’s models.”

O Can you think of an object you can apply your oxymoron to?

ApplicationO Your mission: create an original

manuscript that uses the oxymoron analogy you created.

O You will create one or more characters that use creative expression to deal with a tragic event.

O You must use a variety of the literary devices that we have discussed this semester (Characterization, Tone, Personification, etc) in your script.