1. Why is this an example of personification?
Definition:
When you portray a thing, idea, or an animal doing something only humans can do.
"Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon"
Why is this an example of personification?

2. is giving human traits to non-human things.
"The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him gambling and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!"
((Homer Simpson in The Simpsons))
Does “GAMBLING” have claws?
Can “GAMBLING” really ”enslave” ?
Personification
is giving human traits to non-human things.
CLAWS/ENSLAVING
GAMBLING
Human trait ?_________________ Non Human thing ?____________

3. WHY IS THIS PERSONIFICATION?
I'll speak to it though Hell itself should gape And bid me hold my peace.
Hamlet, scene ii
WHY IS THIS PERSONIFICATION?
GAPE and BID
HELL
Human trait ?_________________ Non Human thing ?____________

4. Identity examples of Personification in these excerpts from
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
Hamlet’s letter, scene ii
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business, as the day Would quake to look on.
Hamlet, scene ii
Identity examples of Personification in these excerpts from
“Hamlet”

5. EXTENDED PERSONIFICATION
Liberty Needs Glasses
excuse me but lady liberty needs glasses
and so does mrs justice by her side 

both the broads r blind as bats

stumbling thru the system 

justice bumbed into mutulu and

trippin on geronimo pratt

but stepped right over oliver

and his crooked partner ronnie 

justice stubbed her big toe on mandela

and liberty was misquoted by the indians 

slavery was a learning phase

forgotten with out a verdict 

while justice is on a rampage 

4 endangered surviving black males

i mean really if anyone really valued life 

and cared about the masses 

theyd take em both 2 pen optical 

and get 2 pair of glasses
EXTENDED PERSONIFICATION
Lady Liberty mrs. justice
What does Tupac mean “lady liberty needs glasses?”
Why is this personification?
What are examples of Tupac extending the metaphor? By
TUPAC SHAKUR

6. WRITE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN PERSONIFICATION POEM
USE YOUR HANDOUT

7. WRITE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN PERSONIFICATION POEM
STEP ONE:
STEP TWO:
Choose a word from List A
Choose a word from List B
Write this word next to the word from List A. List A List B sun tells
guides moon shows
takes stars reminds sky teaches sea listens stone remembers night brings mountain looks dawn dances morning dreams EXAMPLE: stone listens
NOW MAKE YOUR OWN POEM
Write five sentences and put them together each on its own line.
EXAMPLE: Night reminds me of yesterday. The sun listens to the messages of the clouds. Moon, look for me in the fields. Sea, guide me to you. Dawn bring me to the new day.
WRITE YOUR PERSONIFICATION POEM BELOW.
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NOW GIVE IT A - “TITLE”