For today’s writing assignment, choose a vocabulary word to write a characterization of at least 150 words.  You are going to personify (give human character traits) your word.  Imagine your word is a person whose personality matches its definition.  Describe what kind of person your word would be.  You can reveal character by describing the character’s appearance, actions, speech, inner thoughts and feelings,and  environment.  In addition, you can tell what others say about them.  Have fun with this one.  Here is my example (191 words). 

Cadence marched into the room.  He was dressed as usual in a uniform from the marching band. Every button shone and the cords over his shoulder lined up perfectly.  As he marched, he kept time with a rhyme he chanted.  He learned the rhyme while he was in the army, and every step he took matched the beat of the rhyme.  Many people found Cadence very tiring to be around.  Not only did Cadence march everywhere he went, he also expected other people to follow him.  Before he left a room, he lined up everyone in straight, even lines.  He would call out the first line, “One mile, no sweat.”  He expected the group to call answer with “Two mile better yet.”  That is how he led them down the hallway to their next class.  Everyone had to step in time to the beat.  If they got off, all they had to do was watch Cadence at the front of the line.  He lifted his foot high with every step.  He also raised a white baton in his right hand every time he lifted his right foot.  Don’t you wish you could follow Cadence to your next class?