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UNIT 2
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Analyzing Comparisons and Representations
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BIG IDEA Character 118
Workshop Focus: Perspective and Bias
GUIDED READING Aimee Nezhukumatathil, On Listening to Your
Teacher Take Attendance Poem 120
PRACTICE TEXT Anne Bradstreet, Verses upon the Burning of
our House Poem 122
BIG IDEA Structure 125
Workshop Focus: Shifts and Contrasts
GUIDED READING Lisa Parker, Snapping Beans Poem 127
PRACTICE TEXT John Crowe Ransom, Janet Waking Poem 129
BIG IDEA Figurative Language: Word Choice, Imagery,
and Symbols 132
Workshop Focus: Associations and Emphasis
GUIDED READING Frank X Walker, Death by Basketbal l Poem 134
PRACTICE TEXT Arisa White, It was easier to manage Poem 137
BIG IDEA Figurative Language: Comparisons 139
Workshop Focus: Similes and Metaphors
GUIDED READING Amanda Gorman, In This Place (An American
Lyric) Poem 141
PRACTICE TEXT e. e. cummings, she being Brand Poem 144
IDEAS IN LITERATURE 147
Thought and Feeling 147
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Poem 149
John Loomis, Deer Hit Poem 152
Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Fatima, the Biloquist: A
Transformation Story Short Story 155
Opportunity and Loss 166
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Poem 168
Natasha Trethewey, Pilgrimage Poem 171
Sofia T. Romero, Cloud Nine Short Story 174
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