Sofía hated the worksheets. Every Tuesday, her Spanish literature teacher, Profesor Rivas, handed out the same gray photocopies: Ejercicios de figuras literarias . Identify the simile. Underline the hyperbole. Circle the personification.
She opened her notebook and, for the first time, didn’t underline or circle anything. She just wrote. ejercicios de figuras literarias
The next morning, he led the class to the school’s crumbling courtyard. A lone flame tree bloomed in the center, its red flowers like small explosions against the gray sky. Sofía hated the worksheets
“This isn’t writing,” she muttered to her friend Leo. “This is dissection.” Underline the hyperbole
A girl named Camila raised her hand. “This tree has seen a thousand wars and still offers flowers to the sky.”
“That,” he said, “is why we do the exercises. Not to trap poetry, but to set it free.”