Reasoning Statements with Literary Elements

• The (modifier)___________ imagery symbolizes/creates/illustrates/develops/etc.  ___________________________  (insert your idea).

• Is the image impacting tone? How so? 
• Is the image emphasizing something different about the subject thing?
• Does the imagery lead to thinking about people/things outside the poem--and what?

• The  simile/personification/metaphor of "[insert evidence]" reveals/evokes/ suggests _______.

• The resolution suggests _______________.

• The speaker's ___________ tone suggests...

• Author's use of an __________ suggests....

• Author 1 crafts ______ imagery [ to ____________], while Author 2 crafts ______ imagery [to___________].

• Author 1's ______ is demonstrated at the _______ and ________ of the story/poem. 

Look at how this topic sentence (P) is followed by a reasoning sentence (R) that helps structure the paragraph and develop ideas of a. type of images used, and b. how authors use imagery:

Both Benn and Poe use grotesque imagery that deals with the body being destroyed. While Benn crafts images in which the speaker is disgusted by what has happened to the young girl's body, Poe crafts images in which the narrator, Montresor, is unaffected by his destruction of Fortunato. In Benn's "Beautiful Youth," the grotesque imagery evokes disgust because.....  In Poe's "The Cask...," there is no direct description of Fortunato's dead body, so....