In 5-10 sentences, explain why friendship is magic. Follow the C. E.R format
have 1-3 different pieces of evidence.

Don't announce and keep response in 3rd person point of view.

Use the transition quicklink to go to the transition handout.

C. E.R format

sentence 1= the claim in 1 sentence (restate the question to express your thoughts and your reasons for them)

sentence 2= clarify your claim (go into further detail over what you meant in sentence 1)

sentence 3= first piece of evidence (make sure you are not using an extremely long quote/they look bad)

sentence 4/5 = the sentences explaining how or why your evidence proves your point (use a transition to explain what exactly about this example is connecting to your claim. Don't announce - I believe/ Hello my name is/ In my opinion)

sentence 6 = evidence 2 (try to change up the type of evidence to give your response some variety. Meaning if you started with a quote then bring in some paraphrasing or try paraphrasing and quoting together.)

sentence 7/8 = the sentences explaining how or why your evidence proves your point (make sure at this point to start working in how this second example not only proves your point but how it connects with the previous example to further your point as well.)

otherwise sentence 9 = the conclusion (reword your claim using a transition that tells the reader you are wrapping things up. Don't create an entirely new claim by rewording too much)

"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