Firestarter Challenge (10/14/07)

Firestarter Challenge Week 9 Title: To pieces

(the categories of the exercises will change weekly)

  1. Image: Glare on a stainless steel counter.
  2. Form: Write an abecedarian. An Abecedarian is a 26 lined poem where the first letter of each line is the next letter in the alphabet. ie- As the / bee drinks / cans of / Dramamine he / even / forgets to / gather / honey from / inside the comb… etc. Get it?
  3. Anaphora: Use the phrase “Besides the” to begin at least 8 lines.
  4. Rhyme: Use the following rhymes somewhere in your piece: effigy/lethargy and confided/lopsided.
  5. Fact: Use a scientific fact in your piece: Antarctica is 10% of the world’s land mass, and has no indigenous population.

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