ENGLISH 2- Personification Essay Prompt
DUE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD
“A Bird Came Down the Walk”
“What Stumped the Bluejays”
“The Nightingale and the Glowworm”
“Bible Basics Digression”
“Truth or Tradition: Personification”
Choose three of the above essays or poems and respond to the writing prompt below;
one of your choices must include examination of the use of personification in the Bible.
WRITING PROMPT: One of the techniques that an author uses to express a specific message in
a work of literature is through the use of figurative language. One method for doing this is to
use personification to draw a reader’s attention. In an insightful, well-written five-paragraph
essay, explore the author’s use of personification to reach his reader. You must examine three
separate poems or essays–including one Bible story or verse–that utilize this technique and
address what the author’s use of personification does to the reader or does for the literature.
Your essay should examine why an author author would use personification in a piece of literature.
Begin with a catchy introduction that tells me why personification is a popular literary
technique. Within the essay explain what the use of personification accomplishes? Explain
HOW the author uses personification in each piece, and conclude with the reasons authors
employ this technique.
RECOMMENDED ESSAY STRUCTURE:
Introduction Paragraph: Begin your essay with an introduction that introduces your ideas and the
essays, poems, or verses that you will be discussing. Conclude this
paragraph with a well-written and focused thesis statement that identifies
reasons and methods for infusing personification in literature
1st Body Paragraph:
Identify and analyze a specific example of personification within one
story or poem, and explain how it helps to reveal the author’s message
(theme). Be sure to use the Schaffer Method of TS, CD, CM, CM, CD,
CM, CM, C.
2nd Body Paragraph: Identify and analyze a specific example of personification within one
story or poem, and explain how it helps to reveal the author’s message
(theme). Be sure to use the Schaffer Method of TS, CD, CM, CM, CD,
CM, CM, C.
3rd Body Paragraph: Identify a Bible story and discuss its use of personification in the story.
Explain how the incorporation of personification reveals the author’s
message (theme). Be sure to use the Schaffer Method of TS, CD, CM,
CM, CD, CM, CM, C.
Conclusion Paragraph: End with a paragraph that concludes your main argument by restating the
idea of your thesis and supporting arguments.
Don’t forget to refer to the introduction to the text: Imaginative Comparison for ideas and
explanation.
USE THE LAST TWO REFERENCES AT THE TOP OF THIS ASSIGNMENT TO IDENTIFY
BIBLE STORIES THAT INCORPORATE PERSONIFICATION. DO NOT JUST USE THE
SINGLE VERSES LISTED, BUT RATHER GO TO THE STORY AND REFERENCED AND
EXAMINE SEVERAL VERSES FROM THE STORY IN THE BIBLE.
FORMAT REQUIREMENTS: Essay must be typed, 12pt. Times New Roman Font
FOCUSED CRITERIA:
- Introduction paragraph ends with a well-written and focused thesis statement that presents the main
argument of the essay and incorporates how the writer will support this argument.
- Each body paragraph will begin with a topic sentence that makes a statement, which the rest of the paragraph will
work to support.
- Topic sentences work to support the argument presented in the thesis statement.
- Each paragraph will include relevant pieces of textual evidence directly quoted from the text that support the
argument of the paragraph.
- Analysis follows textual evidence to explain how the excerpt from the text supports the writer’s argument.
- The writer displays an accurate understanding of the idea of a theme in a literary work.
- The writer responds accurately to assigned prompt.
- The writer creates a well-written piece that is free of errors in grammar, spelling, and mechanics.