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Author's Craft - Imagery - Print - Fiction Resources
The reader uses his/her imagination to undergo transformation into a lizard. Joanne Ryder's craft of ssing specific words to evoke images enables the reader to imagine becoming and living as a lizard.
 * 3-5**
 * //Lizard in the Sun//, Joanne Ryder, ISBN-10: 068813081X

Eve Bunting creates vivid pictures in the reader's mind as she reads about a young girl who doesn't like her new step-mother.
 * //The Memory String// by Eve Bunting, ISBN-10: 0395861462

Lilly loves her teacher, Mr. Slinger--until he takes away her purse because she can't stop playing with it in class. After this episode, Lilly decides to get revenge on Mr. Slinger; but when she finds the kind note he put in her purse, she feels sorry and has to find a way to make things right again.
 * //Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse// by Kevin Henkes, ISBN-10: 0688128971

Each of Aunt Flossie's hats has a story to tell. Elizabeth F. Howard creates mind pictures for the reader to "see" as he reads about the hats.
 * //Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)// by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, ISBN-10: 0618120386

Cynthia Rylant describes memorable experiences of relatives visiting a family one summer.
 * //The Relatives Came// by Cynthia Rylant, ISBN-10: 0874995329

This wonderful poem has many examples of personification and imagery.
 * 6-8**
 * //[|"The Creation,"]// by James Weldon Johnson
 * //The City of Ember// by Jeanne Duprau ISBN 978-0-375-82274-2 **, In progress**


 * E1-E4**
 * //**Lord of the Flies,**// William Golding. Novel. Copyright 1954. ISBN 0140283331, ISBN 9780140283334. This is a good source for imagery including the conch shell, the glasses, the pig, and the names. Students may be able to pick out other images and write, talk or otherwise demonstrate how the image works.
 * //[|"The Minister's Black Veil,"]// Nathaniel Hawthorne. Short story. The veil is a symbol of hyprocricy. Students will be introduced to identifying the veil as a symbol for the masks that we wear.
 * //**"Panic,"**// Joyce Carol Oates. Short story found in Oates' collection of short stories //Dear Husband,.// Copyright 2009.ISBN-10: 0061704318, ISBN-13: 978-0061704314. Images of families in crises and how individuals cope differently with crises.
 * //**"The Bells,"**// Edgar Allen Poe. Poem. **//(annotate, link, and move)//**
 * //"The Worker,"// Richard W. Thomas. Short, accessible poem juxtaposing images of man and machine and man's loss of humanity. "As they carried him out...lapping up his dripping iron / they couldn't stop." Link includes paragraph summarizing the use of imagery in the poem.
 * //**"There Will Come Soft Rains,"**// both the [|poem by Sara Teasdale] and the 1950 science fiction [|short story by Ray Bradbury]address the iconic imagery of the devastating effects of nuclear weapons. Bradbury's images of a desolate planet are haunting and cautionary with a moral lesson. [|This link] demonstrates close reading techniques for the short story. The poem provides a juxtaposition of the images of war and nature, such as robins whistling while men die.
 * //[|"The Telephone Conversation,"]// Wole Soyinka. Poem. This poem juxtaposes images of colors with racism and prejudice.
 * //**"Street Love,"**// Walter Dean Myers. Poetry. Copyright 2009. ISBN-10: 0064407322, ISBN-13: 978-0064407328 This collection uses a rap beat, rhyme, and rich images (Damien's furious "manhood jam" when he confronts his rival, Junice's anguished visit to her raging mama in prison ("a wolf caught in a trap"), and the lyrical simplicity of the teens' love ("Flying through an endlessly / Expanding universe / Away from the me that was / Toward a me that is beyond / understanding").