Due February 8 (Anthropomorphism & finish Vocab Test)

Your essay this week should be from the perspective of an animal. Your essay should tell the reader about a historical event or a distinctive time in history. 

Think to yourself, "What if I was an animal living in the world during a specific time in history? What would I think? How would I perceive the world? How would I behave? What unique perspective might I have?" 

Here are some examples. You may also choose your own idea!

1. The Great Depression filled the space between America’s Prohibition
   
   (which was still in effect during the Depression) and World War II. The Depression affected the entire world. Well-to-do people lost everything and found themselves standing in food lines. Ordinary people went to extraordinary measures to get a meager meal. Meanwhile, someone, somewhere profited.
2. The entertainment industry boomed in the twentieth century. Technology
   
   changed entertainment from an attraction you paid to see in a theater or other public setting to something you could enjoy from the comfort of your home. Every home had a radio. Black-and-white silent films evolved into Technicolor talkies. Now we have the Internet. Write a story centered on entertainment technologies of the past.
3. Write a story that is set around an important historical figure. Think: saint, leader, martyr scientist, performer, author, poet, musician, composer, athlete
4. Write a story that is set around a wonderful invention. Examples: the first airplane, the discovery of electricity, the telephone, morse code, the telescope, the automobile, the cotton gin.
5. Choose a war or battle from history as your writing prompt. It will be easier to focus on a specific incident rather than the whole war.
6. Throughout history, people have emigrated across land and ocean. Write a story about a voyage. 

NOVICE:  
1 paragraph             

ly word (adverb)

because clause

QA

SV

JV:
1 paragraph

All Dress Ups

Opener #2, #3, #6 (vss)
T/C

VARSITY:
3 paragraphs!

All Dress Ups

Opener #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 (vss), #7

DECs: allit, met, sim, Q?, Q, two more DECs of your choosing
T/C

Personification 

Definition: 

Personification is one of the most commonly used and recognized literary devices. It refers to the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals.

SIMPLY:  when an object or animal just seems like it's doing something human

Example: 

“The raging winds”

“The wise owl”

“The warm and comforting fire”

Anthropomorphism

Definition: 

Anthropomorphism can be understood to be the act of lending a human quality, emotion or ambition to a non-human object or being. This act of lending a human element to a non-human subject is often employed in order to endear the latter to the readers or audience and increase the level of relativity between the two while also lending character to the subject.

SIMPLY:  when an object or animal does human things

Example: 

The raging storm brought with it howling winds and fierce lightning as the residents of the village looked up at the angry skies in alarm.

FROM SCHMOOP:

You might be thinking that anthropomorphism sounds a lot like personification—and you're right. But here's the difference. With anthropomorphism, the object or animal is actually doing something human. With personification, the object or animal just seems like it's doing something human.

ANTHROPOMORPHISM:

Who's your favorite talking dog? Goofy?  Odie the pug?

No matter your answer, you already know anthropomorphism like the back of your hand. Put simply, it's when an object or animal does human things. We're pet-people here at Shmoop, so we like the animal ones the best.

An animal talking? Anthropomorphism. An animal singing? Anthropomorphism. An animal starting a revolution? Anthropomorphism.

That last one—George Orwell's Animal Farm—is probably the most famous examples of anthropomorphism, especially because the animals become more and more human throughout the book—by the end, they're walking on two legs and acting even worse than the humans against whom they rebelled to begin with.

You might be thinking that anthropomorphism sounds a lot like personification—and you're right. But here's the difference. With anthropomorphism, the object or animal is actually doing something human. With personification, the object or animal just seems like it's doing something human.

Example? Don't mind if we do:

"The fog waltzed through the hills." Personification.
"The fog grew legs, grabbed a partner, and waltzed through the hills to the tune of 'Piano Man'" Anthropomorphism.

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