Symbolism, Imagery, Archetypes

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Parts of a Story

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All the events that lead up to the major conflict or climax of the story

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The background information the author gives to the reader so they can understand the story.

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The part of the story that shows how the story works out

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All the events of the story that happen after the major conflict or climax

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The obstacle in the story that the main character has to overcome

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Imagery is _______.

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Symbolism is _____.

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Match the type of imagery to the best description of that imagery.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Visual Imagery:		It is the most common imagery and writers can easily create this by describing anything in a detailed manner. It is said that it is one of the common form of imagery.
Gustatory Imagery:		This imagery is concerned with the sense of smell. It describes the detailed of things such as the dirty sport socks, a cup of ginger tea, etc. It is said that the sense of smell gives a long lasting memory to the readers.
Organic Imagery:		It is related to the sense of hearing. Authors use this imagery by writing the situation in a clear manner. For instance, the sound of raindrops on the roof, the sound of nursery rhyme.
Olfactory Imagery:		This imagery is concerned with the taste. It gives the sense of taste. Writers carefully choose this imagery. For instance, I have eaten chilled mangoes kept in the fridge.
Kinesthetic Imagery:		This type of imagery is the broadest one as it is concerned with the physical interaction with the body. For instance, cold, heat, internal emotions and others. Through this imagery, writers can express the feeling of riding roller coasters and others.
Tactile Imagery:		It represents the sense of touch by referring the ‘hardness’ or ‘softness’. For instance, the upper part of the bed mattress is hard like a stone. The bed sheets are white as snow.
Auditory Imagery:		This kind of imagery is about the recreation of the internal sensations such as thirst, hunger, fear and others.

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Read the following and decide what you think the raven in Poe's The Raven symbolizes.

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

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What is the 'stage' symbolizing in the following quote? "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts."
--Shakespeare

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Match the qualities to the correct Archetype

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
Motto: Where there's a will, there's a way Core desire: to prove one's worth through courageous acts Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a "chicken" Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight Talent: competence and courage		The Innocent
Motto: Rules are made to be broken Core desire: revenge or revolution Goal: to overturn what isn't working Greatest fear: to be powerless or ineffectual Strategy: disrupt, destroy, or shock Weakness: crossing over to the dark side, crime Talent: outrageousness, radical freedom		The Orphan/Regular Guy or Gal
Motto: I make things happen. Core desire: understanding the fundamental laws of the universe Goal: to make dreams come true Greatest fear: unintended negative consequences Strategy: develop a vision and live by it Weakness: becoming manipulative Talent: finding win-win solutions		The Hero
Motto: You're the only one Core desire: intimacy and experience Goal: being in a relationship with the people, work and surroundings they love Greatest fear: being alone, a wallflower, unwanted, unloved Strategy: to become more and more physically and emotionally attractive Weakness: outward-directed desire to please others at risk of losing own identity Talent: passion, gratitude, appreciation, and commitment		The Caregiver
Motto: The truth will set you free Core desire: to find the truth. Goal: to use intelligence and analysis to understand the world. Biggest fear: being duped, misled—or ignorance. Strategy: seeking out information and knowledge; self-reflection and understanding thought processes. Weakness: can study details forever and never act. Talent: wisdom, intelligence.		The Explorer
Motto: Love your neighbour as yourself Core desire: to protect and care for others Goal: to help others Greatest fear: selfishness and ingratitude Strategy: doing things for others Weakness: martyrdom and being exploited Talent: compassion, generosity		The Rebel
Motto: Free to be you and me Core desire: to get to paradise Goal: to be happy Greatest fear: to be punished for doing something bad or wrong Strategy: to do things right Weakness: boring for all their naive innocence Talent: faith and optimism		The Lover
Motto: Don't fence me in Core desire: the freedom to find out who you are through exploring the world Goal: to experience a better, more authentic, more fulfilling life Biggest fear: getting trapped, conformity, and inner emptiness Strategy: journey, seeking out and experiencing new things, escape from boredom Weakness: aimless wandering, becoming a misfit Talent: autonomy, ambition, being true to one's soul		The Creator
Motto: If you can imagine it, it can be done Core desire: to create things of enduring value Goal: to realize a vision Greatest fear: mediocre vision or execution Strategy: develop artistic control and skill Task: to create culture, express own vision Weakness: perfectionism, bad solutions Talent: creativity and imagination		The Jester
Motto: You only live once Core desire: to live in the moment with full enjoyment Goal: to have a great time and lighten up the world Greatest fear: being bored or boring others Strategy: play, make jokes, be funny Weakness: frivolity, wasting time Talent: joy		The Sage
Motto: Power isn't everything, it's the only thing. Core desire: control Goal: create a prosperous, successful family or community Strategy: exercise power Greatest fear: chaos, being overthrown Weakness: being authoritarian, unable to delegate Talent: responsibility, leadership		The Magician
Motto: All men and women are created equal Core Desire: connecting with others Goal: to belong Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch Weakness: losing one's own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships Talent: realism, empathy, lack of pretense		The Ruler

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Which archetype do you think best fits Forrest Gump?

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Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

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Which archetype best fits Cersei Lanister? (the female character)

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Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

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Which archetype best fits Dumbledore? (the old man)

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Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

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Which archetype best fits June (the little girl)?

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Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

Read the following three quotes from The Great Gatsby.

...a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.
...he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness. (1.151-152)

"If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock."
Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one. (5.117-118)

And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (9.152-154

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"Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon."
After reading the above quote, which of the following best describes what the reader should imagine?

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The imagery in the first two quotes inspires the reader to think of Gatsby as ______.

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After reading the quotes from The Great Gatsby which of the following do you think is a symbol?

Then we went in the house, the three of us. Went through the kitchen and saw a lady’s purse lying on the floor, and the phone where the wires had been cut. The sheriff was wearing a hip pistol, and when we started up the stairs, going to Nancy’s room, I noticed he kept his hand on it, ready to draw. “Well, it was pretty bad. That wonderful girl—but you would never have known her. She’d been shot in the back of the head with a shotgun held maybe two inches away. She was lying on her side, facing the wall, and the wall was covered with blood. The bedcovers were drawn up to her shoulders. Sheriff Robinson, he pulled them back, and we saw that she was wearing a bathrobe, pajamas, socks, and slippers —like, whenever it happened, she hadn’t gone to bed yet. Her hands were tied behind her, and her ankles were roped together with the kind of cord you see on Venetian blinds. Sheriff said, ‘Is this Nancy Clutter?’—he’d never seen the child before. And I said, ‘Yes. Yes, that’s Nancy.’ “We stepped back into the hall, and looked around. All the other doors were closed. We opened one, and that turned out to be a bathroom. Something about it seemed wrong. I decided it was because of the chair—a sort of dining-room chair, that looked out of place in a bathroom. The next door —we all agreed it must be Kenyon’s room. A lot of boy-stuff scattered around. And I recognized Kenyon’s glasses— saw them on a bookshelf beside the bed. But the bed was empty, though it looked as if it had been slept in. So we walked to the end of the hall, the last door, and there, on her bed, that’s where we found Mrs. Clutter. She’d been tied, too. But differently—with her hands in front of her, so that she looked as though she were praying—and in one hand she was holding, gripping, a handkerchief. Or was it Kleenex? The cord around her wrists ran down to her ankles, which were bound together, and then ran on down to the bottom of the bed, where it was tied to the footboard —a very complicated, artful piece of work. Think how long it took to do! And her lying there, scared out of her wits. Well, she was wearing some jewelry, two rings—which is one of the reasons why I’ve always discounted robbery as a motive—and a robe, and a white nightgown, and white socks. Her mouth had been taped with adhesive, but she’d been shot point-blank in the side of the head, and the blast —the impact—had ripped the tape loose. Her eyes were open. Wide open. As though she were still looking at the killer. Because she must have had to watch him do it—aim the gun. Nobody said anything. We were too stunned. I remember the sheriff searched around to see if he could find the discharged cartridge. But whoever had done it was much too smart and cool to have left behind any clues like that.

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After reading the following quote the reader should feel ______. "The sheriff was wearing a hip pistol, and when we started up the stairs, going to Nancy’s room, I noticed he kept his hand on it, ready to draw."

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Which best describes what the reader should imagine after reading the excerpt?

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Which of the following is an example of imagery from the In Cold Blood excerpt?

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All the events that lead up to the major conflict or climax of the story

The background information the author gives to the reader so they can understand the story.

The part of the story that shows how the story works out

All the events of the story that happen after the major conflict or climax

The obstacle in the story that the main character has to overcome

Imagery is _______.

Symbolism is _____.

Match the type of imagery to the best description of that imagery.

What is the 'stage' symbolizing in the following quote? "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts." --Shakespeare

Match the qualities to the correct Archetype

Which archetype do you think best fits Forrest Gump?

Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

Which archetype best fits Cersei Lanister? (the female character)

Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

Which archetype best fits Dumbledore? (the old man)

Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

Which archetype best fits June (the little girl)?

Why do you think the archetype you picked makes the most sense? (Restate the question, use an example from the video, and explain your answer)

"Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon."After reading the above quote, which of the following best describes what the reader should imagine?

The imagery in the first two quotes inspires the reader to think of Gatsby as ______.

After reading the quotes from The Great Gatsby which of the following do you think is a symbol?

After reading the following quote the reader should feel ______. "The sheriff was wearing a hip pistol, and when we started up the stairs, going to Nancy’s room, I noticed he kept his hand on it, ready to draw."

Which best describes what the reader should imagine after reading the excerpt?

Which of the following is an example of imagery from the In Cold Blood excerpt?

List 6 descriptive words that appeal to the senses that describe the image above.

What is the 'stage' symbolizing in the following quote? "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts."
--Shakespeare

"Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon."
After reading the above quote, which of the following best describes what the reader should imagine?