I am Vertical

Writing Strategies in "I am Vertical",

by Sylvia Plath

Personification

Metaphor

Imagery

Characterization

Multiple Select

Which writing strategies are used? (check ALL that apply)

"I am vertical, but I would rather be horizontal."

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Characterization

• Personification

"I am vertical, but I would rather be horizontal."

• Characterization - she's describing how she feels about life

• Imagery - we can imagine horizontal and vertical as opposites

• NOT a metaphor because she's not comparing herself to anything

Multiple Choice

What writing strategy is used?

"The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.

I walk among them, but none of them are noticing."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

"The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.

I walk among them, but none of them are noticing."

• Personification-flowers don't usually notice things, people do

• NOT a Metaphor because nothing is being compared

Multiple Select

Which writing strategies do you see? (check ALL that apply)

"I am not a tree with my root in the soil sucking up minerals and motherly love so that each March I may gleam into leaf"

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Imagery

• Characterization

"I am not a tree with my root in the soil sucking up minerals and motherly love so that each March I may gleam into leaf"

• Metaphor - by saying she is NOT a tree, she is comparing herself to a tree

• Imagery - the reader can picture a tree changing and blooming

• Characterization - the narrator is telling us about herself