Prompt:
Choose a quotation from your body biography that illustrates a key theme, symbol, or conflict and use it as a lens to explore a moment from your own life in a personal narrative.
To consider: Perhaps consider how your quotation stirs a memory of a small event, a relationship with another person and how it impacted you, an accomplishment, or particular setting (time and place) in your own life. How does this quotation ignite such an experience?
Please note: This quotation does not need to explicitly appear in your essay; however, you should be prepared to communicate how a connection exists between the quotation and your finished narrative.
Criteria:
Format: MLA, 3-4 Pages.
A personal narrative essay should possess both a story/anecdote (narrative) and the significance of that story (essay). It should include:
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A clear thematic purpose that ultimately shares an important realization or an important quality or value about the writer.
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The tools of narrative writing: descriptive and showing details, imagery, awareness of voice, figurative language, and a hook introduction.
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A creative title.
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Careful proofreading and editing
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don’t talk about the quote or where it is from in your essay
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Add dialogue