Personification is when you give qualities to non-human things
E.g The house watched me closely. The trees reached out to me.
In each sentence, an object or idea is personified. Identify the object or idea that is being personified and explain which human trait or action is applied to the object or idea.
- The wind whispered through the gloomy forest.
What is being personified? The wind.
What human trait or quality has it been given? Whispered through the gloomy forest.
2. The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.
What is being personified? Flowers.
What human trait or quality has it been given? Happy.
3.. As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.
What is being personified? The sun.
What human trait or quality has it been given? Beat down on us.
4. The lumberjack levelled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
What is being personified? The chainsaw
What human trait or quality has it been given? It sang its deadly song.
5. As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, “Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk.” She looked at her classmates accusingly.
What is being personified? The pencil
What human trait or quality has it been given? It walked off of her desk.
6. When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.
What is being personified? The high heels
What human trait or quality has it been given? The human trait given was that it called out to her.
Personification:
1. The thunder roared.
2. The car run across the bridge.
3. The wind was screaming.
-What have I learnt? I learnt how to use personifications and how to identify them.
-How does this work show my learning? This work shows my learning by creating my own and identifying the personifications in the sentences.
- What am I wondering? I'm wondering if personification is used also to describe things.
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