2009 Prose Timed Writing: "The Street"
The following selection is the opening of Ann Petry’s 1946 novel, The Street. Read the selection carefully and
then write an essay analyzing how Petry establishes Lutie Johnson’s relationship to the urban setting through the use of such literary devices as imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language.
then write an essay analyzing how Petry establishes Lutie Johnson’s relationship to the urban setting through the use of such literary devices as imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language.