Today you created similes and metaphors that reflect your struggles, growth, and resilience. In a well-developed paragraph, reflect on the process. What did you learn about yourself while writing your figurative language?

 Prompt Response: Today when I created a few similes and metaphors that reflected on my struggles, growth, and resilience I realized that it was quite hard as even though it is easy to come up with the idea at first as there a lot of experiences that we can use. However when it comes to trying to put it into words or trying to write it down into a figurative language like format, it's a bit difficult. However unlike similes that use like and as which makes it more simpler, doing metaphors are hard because you are trying to tie two ideas that are similar without using 'like' and 'as' which can become quite difficult. Overall I learned that the type of person I am while creating figurative language is that I like to add deeper meaning behind words in a fancy way despite the message being so simple, the reason for doing so is because it sounds grand and it makes it more meaningful because no one else or at least a few people can create the lines you made. 

Summary: Today we finished reading "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou and analyzed the similes and metaphors inside it fully. After that we did 6 metaphors and 6 similes over certain themes that can be applied to our lives. 

Reflection: Today I learned that a metaphor can be hidden in plain sight and that you can also describe an action into a metaphor. This impacted me by making me feel perplexed and profound as I further my literacy skills, the perplexing reaction was over how simple and hard it was and the profundity over how insightful of what I learned today could help me later on. In the future I will use this when trying to create metaphors or similes in my pieces of writing if I ever do write in the future.