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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Assignment for 3/7/07

A) Chapter 6, Exercise 16 (pg. 110)

2. At the Swedish museum in South Philadelphia, the staff is getting ready for gala, year-long celebration of the 300th birthday of Carl Linnaeus.
Unfortunately, despite the grand affair, not many people actually know who Carl Linnaeus is.
Linnaeus was a Scandinavian scientist who created the naming system for every living thing in the past, present, or future; he called it the taxonomy of species.

B) Group Discussion Exercise (pg. 114)
"De-clicheing"

1. Quiet as a monk
2. Hot as the desert
3. Cold as the Arctic
4. Scared as a
5. Strong as titanium
6. Fast as a frog catching a fly
7. Avoid like Joan Rivers at the Oscars
8. Mean as a feral tomcat
10. Pretty as a dandelion
11. Weak as a watered-down fountain drink

1 Comments:

Blogger Karl Fornes said...

Hey. I have a frog and fly relationship in my similes! That's weird.

I like mine better. I win.

March 7, 2007 at 5:41 PM  

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