Personification

The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers. What is being personified?

• The gardener

• The flowers

• The crops

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified?

• The forest

• The wind

• A person whispering

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us. What is being personified?

• The sun

• The desert

• The people walking

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic. What is being personified?

• The clock

• Time

• The room

• Tim

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom's grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable. What is being personified?

• The suitcase

• The wallpaper

• The gift

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

William knew that he shouldn't have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar. What is personified?

• The cookie jar

• The cookies

• Guilt

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"The wind whistled a happy tune as I walked along the hard mountain trail."
What human characteristic is being given?

• Whistling
• Happiness
• Walking
• Hiking

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."
What is being personified?

• The walls
• The scream
• The room
• The orange

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What's the meaning of this personification?
"The camera loves me!"

• Photography is one of my hobbies.
• I own an expensive camera.
• Photos of me are always really good. 
• I like to visit art museums.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4