1. Aim: How do we recognize the comparisons being made by visual metaphors?

4. Brainstorm… Write down everything you see in the picture. Keep it literal.

5. Analyze Look at each item you listed and describe how each item is depicted (shown) in the painting. For example, how would you describe the way the clocks are shown in the painting.

6. Compare Based on how you described the images in the painting, to what can we compare them? For example, based on how you described the clocks, to what can you compare these clocks?

7. The Persistence of Memory to persist - to continue; to last; to endure Based on the title of the painting, discuss how the specific images in the painting depict the idea, the persistence of memory. What images in the painting relate to the idea of persistence and memory?