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Lesson 1 (from Chapters 1-2)
Objective
Students will examine the author's use of similes and other literary devices to create vivid imagery and to aid the reader's understanding of events and characterizations present within the text.
Part of what makes the fictional world within Philip K. Dick's novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch come alive for the reader is the author's frequent use of vivid and inventive similes. One such instance occurs when Richard emerges from his conapt near the beginning of the novel. Dick impresses upon the reader an understanding of the extreme heat that has come to plague Earth within this dystopian future America when the narrator states, "He paid the cab, hopped from it, and scuttled across a short open space for a ramp, his case held with both hands; briefly, naked sunlight touched him and he felt—or imagined—himself sizzle. Baked like a toad, dried of...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.4, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.4, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.2, 11-12.2
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