By Ms. Brassil I.T. Creswell Arts Magnet Personification By Ms. Brassil I.T. Creswell Arts Magnet

Personification Giving human or animal characteristics to objects Example: The roses welcomed me with their sweet fragrance. Roses = things, but here they are acting like a person by “welcoming”

Examples of Personification The engine snarled and spit as the car disappeared down the road. Engine = thing, but here it is acting like a person or animal by “snarling” and “spitting” The aspen tree shivered in the cold dusk. Tree = thing, but here it is acting like a person by “shivering”

Thomas Sully (1783-1872), "Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely" http://quigleyscabinet.blogspot.com/2009/10/harps-played-and-painted.html Thomas Sully (1783-1872), "Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely"

Portrait of the Artist Painting His Wife, ca Portrait of the Artist Painting His Wife, ca. 1810, oil on canvas, Yale University Art Gallery

Portrait of Andrew Jackson, 1824, used for the United States' $20 dollar bill from 1928 onward