Practice creating a dramatic scene. create three to five sentences that paint an image in the reader’s mind. in each sentence include at least one of the following: simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and connotation. label each sentence with the device you used. (note: you will not necessarily use all of these devices.)

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.

On a scale 1 to 10 how responsible are you? explain your answer

If you were making a persuasive speech about how students should take creative writing every year they are in school, which sentence would most effectively support that argument?