Life on the Mississippi

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Life on the Mississippi

• By Mark Twain

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Change of Heart

• Think about a time when you had a change of heart
  about something that you wanted, but that did not
  live up to your expectations
• A job you always thought that you wanted
• A hobby that looked exciting
• A place you thought you wanted to visit
• A subject you always wanted to know more about
• A person you wanted to meet, or get to know

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Change of Heart

• What were the characteristics that fascinated you
  beforehand, or in the beginning?
• Why did the idea fascinate you?
• How did your feelings change as you became more
  knowledgeable?
• What did you learn that made you change your
  mind?
• Did you still think the thing was interesting,
  but just not for you?

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Description

• The process by which a writer creates pictures
  (in words) of a scene, an event, or a character
• Helps a reader picture the thing being described
• A broad expanse of the river was turned to blood
  in the middle distance the red hue brightened
  into gold

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Imagery

• Descriptive words or phrases a writer uses to
  recreate sensory experience using sensory details
• Sensory details
• Appeal to the readers sense of sight, hearing,
  smell, taste, and touch
• In another place the surface was broken

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Analogies

• Show the similarities between two things that are
  otherwise unlike each other

The face of the water, in time, became a
wonderful book a book that was a dead language
to the uneducated passenger, but which told its
mind to me without reserve, delivering its most
cherished secrets
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Imagery

• Descriptive words or phrases a writer uses to
  recreate sensory experience
• Sensory details
• Appeal to the readers sense of sight, hearing,
  smell, taste, and touch

Analogies

• Show the similarities between two things that are
  otherwise unlike each other