1. Personification (with a review of simile and metaphor) Personification (with a review of simile and metaphor)

2. Personification Personification is when an author gives an idea, object, or animal qualities or traits of a person. Simply, when you make a thing, idea, or animal do something only humans can do.

3. Personification What word do you notice inside the word personification that will give you a clue as to its meaning?

4. Personification

5. Personification  Let’s take a look at several examples! examples  Now, let’s go a little further and determine what is being personified! what is being personifiedwhat is being personified

6. Directions For each of the following slides decide whether each sentence contains a simile, a metaphor, or personification. If simile or metaphor, what is being compared? If personification what object is being personified?

7. page 72 The other bodies in the room were little more than bags of flesh and bones, dumped across broken chairs and couches.

8. metaphor

9. Camp Green Lake once danced in the heart of Texas.

10. personification

11. Trout's feet smelled like dead fish.

12. simile

13. Mr. Yelnats thought old smelly sneakers were his ticket to success.

14. metaphor

15. The rain stopped, and the lake said good bye.

16. personification

17. The trees beckoned the campers to its shade.

18. personification

19. Clyde Livingston's shoes were as smelly as blue cheese.

20. simile

21. The hundred year curse was dynamite to Stanley's family.

22. metaphor

23. The wind sang its sad tune.

24. personification

25. Magnet claimed, "My fingers are like little magnets."

26. Magnet claimed, "My fingers are like little magnets.“ simile

27. Sam ran like the devil with Charles Walker chasing after him.

28. simile

29. The cameras were windows for the Warden to see into the boys' lives.

30. metaphor

31. The nail polish with rattlesnake venom was as lethal as nuclear waste.

32. simile

33. The onions were miracle drugs.

34. metaphor

35. The camp sang when Stanley and Zero were set free.

36. personification

37. Listen to “I am a Rock” by Paul Simon. Highlight personification in blue, metaphors in red, and alliterations in green. A winter's day- in a deep and dark December I am alone- Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island. I've built walls, A fortress deep and mighty That none may penetrate I have no need of friendship friendship causes pain It's laughter and loving I disdain I am a rock, I am an island. Don't talk of love but I've heard the word before It's sleeping in my memory I won't disturb the slumber of the feelings that have died If I never loved I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island. I have my books and my poetry to protect me I am shielded in my armor Hiding in my room, safe within my womb, I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.

38. personification blue, metaphors red, and alliterations green A winter's day- in a deep and dark December I am alone- Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I am a rock, I am an island. I've built walls, A fortress deep and mighty That none may penetrate I have no need of friendship friendship causes pain It's laughter and loving I disdain I am a rock, I am an island. Don't talk of love but I've heard the word before It's sleeping in my memory I won't disturb the slumber of the feelings that have died If I never loved I never would have cried. I am a rock, I am an island. I have my books and my poetry to protect me I am shielded in my armor Hiding in my room, safe within my womb, I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island. And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.