Think of a dream deferred---one that you haven’t yet reached. It can be something important to you or others. It can also be something a bit more light-hearted. First, come up with a topic. Then make a list of nouns, verbs, and adjectives you might use in your poem. Finally, come up with at least one simile, metaphor, or analogy you might use in your poem. This is pre-writing, next we will take these notes and write your own poem! 10 points Topic: Nouns:

Verbs:

Adjectives:

Simile/Metaphor/Analogy:

See explanation for answer.

Explanation:

Topic:

Music career

Nouns:

Melody

Harmony

Singing

Soul

Tune

Piece

Verbs:

Accompany

Autotune

Arrange

Adjectives:

Gentle

Soft

Melodius

Harmonic

Metaphor

Music is like the medicine for your illness as it is for your ears.

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as you read the passage below, consider how dana gioia uses

evidence, such as facts or examples, to support claims.

reasoning to develop ideas and to connect claims and evidence.

stylistic or persuasive elements, such as word choice or appeals to emotion, to add power to the ideas expressed.

explanation:

- "he is a very real person and his intent isn't to influence us vonnegut addresses this towards the end of the letter when he says, if we choose to curse, that is by our own individual means."