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While composing this well-formatted vignette, students will experiment with the literary devices, anaphora, and allusion. Having done so, they can easily transfer these techniques to more complex formats. This form of composition encourages creativity while teaching the importance of sensory details and word choices for establishing tone and mood. Perhaps equally important, this experience will teach your students that writing is fun!
The short mentor passage, “The Magic of Winter,” provides a model for this assignment. Upon completion, students will understand how to:
write a vignette
use anaphora to create textual rhythm
use allusion to stimulate the reader’s interest
format a vignette
reflect on some aspects of the winter season
Product Components
* Mentor Text: “The Magic of Winter”
* Characteristics of a Vignette
* Using Literary Devices to Enhance Your Writing
* Using Sensory Images to Enrich Your Writing
* Creating Tone and Mood through Word Choice
* Questions to Inspire Reflection
* Formatting Your Vignette
* Peer Edit form and Rubric
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Excerpts from Mentor Text
Autumn, with its multi-colored elegance, no longer dominated the landscape. The fallen leaves of burnished copper, gold, and scarlet were now only memories. Mother Nature, dressed in her disguise as Old Man Winter, had finally arrived for a visit. In one wrinkled hand, she grasped a paintbrush. In the other, she held an art palette covered in multiple shades of silver and white.
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