1. Personification
A type of figurative language that gives animals, ideas, or inanimate objects human traits and characteristics.

2. What is the object being personified?
How is personification being used?
What is the meaning of the personification?

3. The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner.

4. The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner.

5. The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner.
The microwave timer beeped.

6. The video camera observed the whole scene.

7. The video camera observed the whole scene.

8. The video camera observed the whole scene.
The video camera recorded it.

9. The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!"

10. The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!"

11. The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!"
The strawberries were very tempting.

12. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.

13. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.

14. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
The rain touched my cheeks as it fell.

15. The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.

16. The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.

17. The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.
The water looked cool and inviting.

18. The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard.

19. The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard.

20. The car engine had trouble starting up.
The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard.
The car engine had trouble starting up.

21. Personification Practice
Check to see if you know what personification is. Click on the lines that you think are examples of personification.

22. Walking desks took over town.
I listen to the wind.
The snake loves food.
The moon dances around my fear.
Ronnie Johnson smiles at the fox.
Wind whispers like a tree in the breeze.
A rock smiles when people sit on it and read.
The cars dance across the icy road.

23. Fill in the blanks to create personification.
1. The leaves ___________ as they fell to the ground The wind ____________ through the falling leaves.
3. The daffodils ______________ at the walkers-by.
4. The snow _______________upon the rooftops.
5. The china _____________ during the earthquake.

24. How can we use personification in a poem?

25. The Sun Just Had a Nasty Day by Denise Rodgers
The sun just had a nasty day, refused to smile or shine. It stayed behind the dark gray clouds, a mottled, grim design. But shortly after dinner time one ray poked though the gray, a spark of golden yellow warmth reminding us of day.
If you want to please us, Sun, (don't take this as a warning) if you're going to pierce the clouds, please do it in the morning.

26. Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window and counted the steps of the sun, and they both took root in the carpet where the topaz tortoises run William Blake

27. The Railway Train
I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step
Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare

28. To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop-docile and omnipotent- At its own stable door.
By Emily Dickinson

29. Your turn!
Choose any object within your theme and write a three - stanza poem about it using personification. Each stanza must have at least four lines.

30. Great Job!

31. Wrong, try again.