Instructions: The more clearly you understand this person, the better you will be able to tell his or her story. Answer these questions to guide your writing. Who have you decided to interview?

How do you know this person?

Briefly describe the experience this person shared with you.

How old was he or she at the time of the story?

How did he or she feel during the events of the story?

What emotions did he or she express while telling you about the experience?

How did he or she feel after the experience?

Conflict
Instructions: Establishing a clear conflict will help you shape the story. Answer these questions to guide your writing.

What conflict did your subject face?

What type of conflict is this?

What created the conflict?

Who is involved in the conflict?

How did your subject respond to the conflict?

What is the outcome of your subject's response?

Plot
Instructions: Take time now to plan the course of events in your narrative. The conflict you selected earlier should be the driving force in your story. Answer these questions.

Who is your protagonist?

What conflict does the protagonist face?

What point of view will you use?

How can you use foreshadowing or flashback to add interest to your story?

Outline the plot of your narrative.

Narrative Plan
Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Modernist poetry broke traditions in works that did all of the following except: question 1 options: a) experimented with language, symbolism, and imagery b) challenged rules about point of view, rhyme scheme, meter, and capitalization c) focused on the poem’s appearance on the page as a form of self-expression d) addressed subjects and ideas that had been explored in poetry for centuries. while mr. flood is not heroic in the typical sense and does nothing admirable during the poem’s action, robinson’s description of mr. flood is nevertheless filled with pathos, which a) the poem is filled with language and descriptions which arouse emotion, usually pity and sympathy, from the reader. b) the poem is filled with nonsensical events that make the reader laugh at mr. flood’s expense. c) the poem gives vivid sensory details that make the reader feel like they are a part of the story. d) the poem is tedious and drawn out with details that don’t influence the reader at all. refer to the william carlos williams poem "spring and all" (on pages 306-7 in your textbook), to answer the prompt below. your response should be 1-2 well-developed paragraphs and should include specific details (quotes) from the poem that support your analysis. cite your textual evidence as well. you should use your journeys book. because “spring and all” ends with language and imagery that suggest birth and growth, many readers consider it a hopeful poem that celebrates the first steps toward new life and away from a wintry world characterized by death and decay. consider the poem’s date of publication—1923—and the historical events that influenced many modern writers, specifically, world war i. poem below: by the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast-a cold wind. beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees all along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines- lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches- they enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. all about them the cold, familiar wind- now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf one by one objects are defined- it quickens: clarity, outline of leaf but now the stark dignity of entrance-still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken how might “spring and all” be interpreted as a reaction to the violence of world war 1? be sure to cite examples from the poem to support your analysis.

Reread lines 6-7 "the survivor." determine how the tone of these differs from the preceding lines (1-5)

Which of these events inspired many of stephen crane’s writings, including the story “an episode of war”?