Group Plot Diagrams for "The Most Dangerous Game"

Today we did imitation writing. If you were absent, the assignment is below.

Imitation Writing: Description

Read and annotate the following sentences.

As you annotate, consider what you notice about the sentences:
diction
punctuation
syntax
figurative language
selection of detail
anything else you see

"I can still see Hassan up on that tree, sunlight flickering through the leaves on his almost perfectly round face, a face like a Chinese doll chiseled from hardwood: his flat, broad nose and slanting, narrow eyes like bamboo leaves, eyes that looked, depending on the light, gold, green, even sapphire. I can still see his tiny low-set ears and that pointed stub of a chin, a meaty appendage that looked like it was added as a mere afterthought."
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

"Above all- we were wet. Out in the Atlantic Ocean great sheets of rain gathered to drift slowly up the River Shannon and settle forever in Limerick. The rain dampened the city from the Feast of the Circumcision to New Year's Eve. It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks. It turned noses into fountains, lungs into bacterial sponges. It provoked cures galore; to ease the catarrh you boiled onions in milk blackened with pepper; for the congested passages you made a paste of boiled flour and nettles, wrapped it in a rag, and slapped it, sizzling, on the chest."
Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

Your Turn:
1. Model a description of someone you will not forget after Hosseini's description of Hassan, specifically in use of figurative language and imagery, as well as the phrasing after the colon. (with your group)

2. Model a description of a memorable place you have been after McCourt's description of the rain and its effect on the city. Notice especially the repetition and use of figurative language and imagery. (on your own)