Reflective Writing- A moment in your life journey

Taking the Visual to the Verbal -

This activity will correspond to the narrative essay component of the English 10 provincial.

Begin to chart your  life journey thus far using words or images. 

Focus on one key moment in your life.

Think about the details of the event: who, what , where, when , why , how

Reflect on the five senses: taste, smell, touch, sight, sound

And don't forget how feelings affect your memory of an experience.

For this activity, using a thesaurus will be helpful.

You will write down your memory in a narrative paragraph. For this assignment, you will write from a first person point of view. Start with your memory and capture the most powerful moment of that memory. Use at least one example of figurative language and include at least two senses. Write at least 8 sentences. Being specific creates powerful writing.

Literary Terms for this activity:

Figurative language is using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful. Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, allusions go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give the readers new insights.

First Person Narrator: Definition. First person narrative is a point of view (who is telling a story) where the story is narrated by one character at a time. This character may be speaking about him or herself or sharing events that he or she is experiencing

A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration used to make a point.
 It is like the opposite of “understatement.” 

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two things that are unrelated, without using like or as.

mood As a literary device, mood is the emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader. 

narrative a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

simile- a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid and uses like or as  (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

onomatopoeia the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo,sizzle ).

Slang a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal