Personification

What is the definition of personification?

• an author gives human traits or characteristics to an animal or object

• an author's way of developing a character through the character's words, thoughts, and actions

• concrete details of a story that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste

• the perspective from which the author presents the actions and characters of a story

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At night, the wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.

What is being personified?

• the night

• the forest

• the wind

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The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing that he was making happy flowers.

What is being personified?

• gardener

• manure

• crops

• flowers

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As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.

What is being personified?

• desert

• sun

• us

• scorching

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Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.

What is being personified?

• time

• room

• Tim

• clock

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The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.

What is being personified?

• lumberjack

• trees

• chainsaw

• song

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CCSS.L.5.5A

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When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.

• Monica

• store

• high heels

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As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, "Well, I guess it just walked off my desk." She looked at her classmates accusingly.

• pencil

• Monica

• desk

• classmates

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Which sentence has an example of personification?

• Her brown hair moved with the breeze.

• The boy ran like a cheetah across the playground.

• My pencil danced across the page as I wrote my personal narrative.

• The girl was as beautiful as an angel.

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Which of these sentences has an example of personification?

• My alarm clock screamed and woke me up this morning.

• The boy smiled at the turtle in the pond.

• The cat licked my face as I tried to read my book.

• He quickly climbed the mountain like a bighorn sheep.

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