Abiographical narrative is a life experience written about someone else. however, for this assignment, you will write
from the perspective a character in the crucible as if you are them. usually the subject is an important or key event.
you will choose an event that was mentioned in the play, but that we do not actually have full details about, and then
write that event. this cannot be a scene we saw or that was explained by the characters.
this will be a 2-3 page, typed biographical narrative in mla format. you will need a creative title. the point is to
show your ability to use figurative language in order to tell a story-their story. the reader needs to feel, see, taste, hear,
and smell it transport us into that moment of their life. let us know who they really are, if only for a single moment.
you need to use language fitting for your character. this means dust off the thesaurus, look up how to spell those
words you know but can't remember how to spell, and use advanced sentence structure. if your character is angry, let
us feel their anger. if they are sad, let us feel dat too. remember that dialogue moves a story. you need to transition
smoothly and not sound like you are making a list. run-ons are not appropriate here. this should sound like them.
meaning use words/phrases that they would use. this is called voice.

for abigail

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification