Outline On Julia Alvarez's Short Story 'Snow'

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Midterm Reverse Outline 2017

Directions: Using your Midterm writing, fill in the parts of the outline next to the description. Do not add in, yet. This is simply a way for you to see what information you did and did not provide. It might be helpful to use black font, rather than the PINK

Controlling Idea (CI): xxxxxxxx
Literary Element (LE):
Define the LE:
Symbolism... the snow represents the bomb
INTRO:
Begin with a general statement: Something about the Controlling Idea but not specific to the passage. xxxxx TAG (title author genre) snow julia alvarez fiction
In the passage (title)by (author), the author uses (LE)to do (something).
In the short story “snow” by julia alvarez a young immigrant girl came to live in new york.
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