DIGGING DEEP INTO PERSONIFICATION

DIGGING DEEP INTO PERSONIFICATION

You're not human, but you speak, talk and walk like one.

Multiple Choice

The candle dances in the dark.

• The flame shines.

• The flame moves.

• The lights are blinking.

Multiple Choice

The sunflowers nods in the wind.

• The sunflowers agrees with each other.

• The wind moves the sunflowers.

• The wind is not blowing.

Open Ended

The angry storm pounds the house.

LET'S REVIEW PERSONIFICATION!

How is it humanlike?

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct definition for personification.

• The act of literally making something human.

• A person who strives to be the best he or she can be.

• A literary device which gives human qualities to nonhuman things.

Multiple Choice

What is personification call when it is used to give human feelings and actions to animals?

• Metamorphosis

• Animalism

• Anthropomorphism

Multiple Choice

Which of these lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 contains personification?

• Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

• Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade

• So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see…

Multiple Choice

Which of the parts of this excerpt from Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” make it an example of personification? “Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination”

• Whoever you are

• No matter how lonely

• The world offers itself

• To your imagination

BALLAD

If you want to read a story or tell a story in a poem, the ballad is for you. It is written in quatrains, groups of four lines, and have a rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABCB. The lines alternate between having eight syllables and six syllables. 

Multiple Choice

Who are the main characters?

• Room

• William

• Sunflowers

Multiple Choice

What problem do the main characters have?

• There is too much sunlight.

• They are excited.

• They are weary.

Multiple Choice

Which literary device is used?

• anthropomorphism

• allegory

• personification

Open Ended

Write two sentences with personification.