Personification Review

Personification Review

Let's review what we learned about personification.

What was personification?

Click on the definition that shows personification.

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• Comparing 2 different things using the verb 'to be'

• An exaggeration

• Treating an object, plant, or animal like a person

• A sound effect

Something is personified if it...

• Says something when it actually can't

• Feels emotions

• Acts like a person would

• Has thoughts, even if it doesn't have a brain

The leaves parachuted off the tree to the ground.

• What is being personified?

• How is it being personified?

• What does the figurative language mean?

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The leaved parachuted off the tree to the ground.

• The leaves are being treated like people.

• Parachuting is what a person would do, not a leaf.

• The leaves are just falling to the ground.

Let's do some practice personification.

You are going to identify what is being personified, how it is being personified, and what the personification means.

Multiple Choice

The sad, old house was the ugliest house on the street.

What is being personified?

• house

• street

• ugliest

• old

Multiple Choice

The sad, old house was the ugliest house on the street.

How is it being personified?

• Houses can't be old.

• Ugly is only used to describe people.

• Houses can't be sad.

• The house can't be on the street.

Multiple Choice

The sad, old house was the ugliest house on the street.

What does the figurative language mean?

• The house looks run down and broken.

• The house had its feelings hurt.

• The house is crying.

• We are treating houses like people.

After doing my homework, I put my computer to sleep.

This is our next personification.

Multiple Choice

After doing my homework, I put my computer to sleep.

What is being personified?

• Me

• my homework

• sleep

• computer

Multiple Choice

After doing my homework, I put my computer to sleep.

How is it being personified?

• Homework can't be done.

• Computers do not have beds.

• Computers can't do homework.

• Computers don't sleep.

Multiple Choice

After doing my homework, I put my computer to sleep.

What does the personification mean?

• It was late and the computer needed a bedtime story.

• I closed my computer until I needed it next.

• My computer had no energy.

• My computer was tired.

The classroom's heater groaned as hot air moved the loose papers.

This is our next personification.

Multiple Choice

The classroom's heater groaned as hot air moved the loose papers.

What is being personified?

• Classroom

• heater

• air

• papers

Multiple Choice

The classroom's heater groaned as hot air moved the loose papers.

How is it being personified?

• The classroom can't own a heater.

• The heater is upset.

• The heater can't move papers.

• The heater groaned.

Multiple Choice

The classroom's heater groaned as hot air moved the loose papers.

What does the figurative language mean?

• The heater is making a noise.

• We are treating something like a person.

• The heater is blowing hot air.

• The heater doesn't work.

After the hot day, the plants were miserable and needed water.

This is our next personification.

Multiple Choice

After the hot day, the plants were miserable and needed water.

What is being personified?

• day

• water

• hot

• plants

Multiple Choice

After the hot day, the plants were miserable and needed water.

How is it being personified?

• Plants don't need water.

• The day can't be hot.

• Plants can't feel miserable.

• We are treating something like a person.

Multiple Choice

After the hot day, the plants were miserable and needed water.

What does the figurative language mean?

• The plants were dried up.

• The plants were bored from sitting around all day.

• The plants were stepped on.

• The plants were healthy.

I forgot to bring my lunch to school, so when I got home the leftovers in the fridge were calling my name.

This is our last personification practice problem.

Multiple Choice

I forgot to bring my lunch to school, so when I got home the leftovers in the fridge were calling my name.

What is being personified?

• lunch

• school

• leftovers

• fridge

Multiple Choice

I forgot to bring my lunch to school, so when I got home the leftovers in the fridge were calling my name.

How is it being personified?

• The leftovers are lonely

• Leftovers can't talk.

• Leftovers can't use a phone.

• Leftovers can't dance.

Multiple Choice

I forgot to bring my lunch to school, so when I got home the leftovers in the fridge were calling my name.

What does the figurative language mean?

• The food is moldy.

• There is food in my fridge.

• We are treating something like a person.

• I really wanted to eat that food.

Let's review!

Personification is...

Multiple Choice

Personification is...

• an exaggeration

• when we compare 2 different things using 'like' or 'as'

• when we treat an object, plant, or animal like a person

• a sound effect

We know something is being personified if....

Click on the ones that show how something might be personified.

Multiple Select

We know something is being personified if it

• Acts like a person

• Feels emotions

• Says things when it really can't

• Thinks, even if it doesn't have a brain.