{"id":49,"date":"2021-04-01T18:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2021-04-26T14:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:21:37","slug":"images-and-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/for-students\/write-like-greta\/images-and-metaphors\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Images and Metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This lesson<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will use Greta\u2019s writing as an example to teach you <\/span><b>how to focus your writing and influence how your audience feels about your topic by incorporating a central image or metaphor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 580px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-49-1\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1539\/2021\/04\/Using-Metaphors-in-Writing_default.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1539\/2021\/04\/Using-Metaphors-in-Writing_default.mp4\">https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1539\/2021\/04\/Using-Metaphors-in-Writing_default.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After watching the video and writing your two practice sentences, <\/span><b>return to your main topic and write a paragraph to go with your \u201cgut claim\u201d that incorporates a central metaphor.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are some examples:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can compare high school students\u2019 brains to plants. They have a lot of potential to grow and thrive, but they need to be in the right environment \u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who want to increase the minimum wage too fast are reckless drivers. They think they are rushing to save our economy, but they could do real damage if they don\u2019t stop to consider the consequences \u2026<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/for-students\/write-like-greta\/counterarguments\/\">Counterarguments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lesson will use Greta\u2019s writing as an example to teach you how to focus your writing and influence how your audience feels about your topic by incorporating a central image or metaphor. After watching the video and writing your two practice sentences, return to your main topic and write a paragraph to go with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3796,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/responses-to-thunberg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}