The studio was oddly silent. She could see only the legs of the cameramen, hunched over the cameras, with their empty glass camera eyes staring back at her like space aliens. As she walked across the stage to the oak podium, the carpet muffed the sound of her footsteps, and the spotlight blinded her for a moment. Beyond the false windows, there was only a blue panel, meant to suggest the sky, and she remembered her own days as an undergraduate. Her shoes hurt, and she wished she had chosen another pair this morning. But of course, she could not say that. She put that to the back of her mind. “Welcome to Writing Creative Nonfiction,” she said. “I’m Tilar Mazzeo, and together we’ll be exploring what it means to write a great story.”
•Do a close reading of your chosen text and analyze it based from the following aspects: a. Setting b. Plot c. Characters d. Figurative Language
