due Thursday 12/3

1. Having decided on your poem(s) and simile(s), and having sent it (them) to me, choose five or so examples that might possibly support your simile.

2. For ONE of your examples, choose an important word.

3. In the American Heritage Dictionary (can be found on dictionary.com; keep scrolling down) or the Oxford English Dictionary, find a definition that is particularly apt. Explain why that definition is helpful.

4. Discuss how this helpful definition bears on your simile/claim.

5. Spend a few sentences writing about connotations of this same word and how they bear on your simile/claim.