Where I'm from notes and assignment guidelines

You must use: 

    -4 Stanzas

    -3-4 Events/ people/ places covered

    -at least 1 alliteration

    -at least 1 Metaphor

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    -Repeat phrase “I’m from” or “I am from”

Notes:

Stanza one: She is talking about her childhood of laundry on the line to dry, eating dirt under the porch and climbing trees

Stanza two: She is remembering her strict Sunday school class with the verses, hymns, crafts, and parents or other adults telling her to listen and stay quiet.

Stanza three: She remembers her parents and grandparents, who are working class (farmers) without a lot of money.

Stanza four: In the present, she is looking through an old box of photos which is why she is recalling all of these memories now.

Figurative Language:

She uses a ton of metaphors, but the best one is carried throughout—a tree. “whose limbs I remember”, “Billie’s Branch”, “Snapped”, “Budded”, “leaf-fall from the family tree”.

Imagery- taste, sights, sounds

Alliteration and consonance- “Spilling old pictures, A sift of lost faces, To drift beneath my dreams.”