Scott Fitzgerald was no exception. Maybe the fact that we have to speculate about what the prompt will be before entering class is the source of my discomfort or maybe the fact that we have a time limit to process as much as possible. Whatever it is, most CTAs aren't kind to me. That said, I made quite a few revisions to my original which contained an abundance of little quotes that I decided were too much, as in this example: "Use similes like the breeze 'blowing the curtains at one end and out from the other like pale frogs' and this too created a shadow on the 'wine-coloured carpet' as 'the wind does on the sea'." This pattern of “over-quoting” was sadly consistent throughout this CTA as a fatal flaw. I think the time pressure fogged my brain a little and I had trouble finding the words, so I decided to take them directly from the song. To avoid this in my revisions I decided to paraphrase: “Use similes to compare curtains dancing in response to the breeze to pale flags sliding back and forth on the wind. The shadow of the curtains on the wine-colored carpet is linked to the image of the wind on the