Header image from Watchmen, selected as one of the best novels all of all time by TIME magazine.
Be sure you’ve carefully read the lecture that uses artwork and optical illusions to demonstrate how your brain processes information and creates meaning. This process is at the root of everything you learn, from the way you compile evidence for class portfolios to the way you relate to a literary character to the way you make a three-dimensional cube flatten into a diamond-like shape.
Now we will look at descriptive writing, which is rarely isolated as its own mode of discourse at your age. To help, we need a visual: Rorschach inkblots.
Using Google to learn about Rorschach is likely to introduce you to comic book anti-heroes1 and questionable personality tests, so anyone interested in the history should visit this National Library of Medicine article.
That link exists to introduce anyone curious and motivated enough to find this footnote to Ground News, an excellent way to navigate media bias and factuality. ↩