To Nicky Morgan,

I strongly believe that students should study poetry in school because it teaches them various language techniques. Poetry can help you with your English as there are many language   techniques in poetry which occur in your everyday English lesson. For example the repetition of the same same first letter of a word may poetry may lead to teaching students about alliteration. or example in the poem The Eagle written by Tennyson was a very complex poem which had specific language devices of which if you didn’t learn poetry you may not have known about this language device. In  the whole poem Tennyson personifies an an eagle. You may have learnt about personification by reading previous poems but if the government didn’t allow people to study poetry they would not understand or discover many language techniques, which in use may give them very vital marks on a test.

 

Joseph –

You have a good understanding of prosopopoeia, and you use examples to explore it well.

The written expression here shows evidence of being rushed. Have a read through and see if you can spot where you should have started a new sentence.

-RP