Personification Review #2

Select ALL of the correct examples of personification.

• The clouds cried on the stormy night.

• Here beautiful eyes are as dark as the midnight sky.

• The train's wheels screamed.

• When my mom yells she sounds like a roaring lion and it frightens me.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What words from this poem show personification?

"I think my computer hates me,

it won't do a thing I say,

it groans and complains

when I want it to work,

and laughs when I want it to play."

• hates me

• groans and complains

• laughs

• I say

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Check ALL sentences that show personification.

• The bushes bowed down and greeted us as we walked up the path during the storm.

• The guitar sang a joyful tune that made my feet bop.

• The trees dressed up in red and gold to celebrate the start of autumn.

• My baby sister is always hungry and whining for food.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is personification?

• Figurative language that a writer uses to make NON-HUMAN objects, concepts, and animals act like people.

• Figurative language that a writer uses to create mental images in the reader's mind through descriptive details.

• Figurative language that compares two different things using the words "like" and "as".

• Figurative language that compares two different things through their similar qualities or traits.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Choose the correct answer for the task card.

• A

• B

• C

• D

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• The scruffy puppy's eyes begged us to pick him up.

• We couldn't resist the terrier's puppy-dog eyes.

• The puppy looked up at us in an adorable way.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• It rains frequently in April.

• The rains in April nourish the growing plants.

• April is a very weepy month.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Choose the correct answer for the task card.

• A

• B

• C

• D

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Choose the correct answer for the task card.

• A

• B

• C

• D

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RI.K.7

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• The water in the ocean was extremely warm.

• The warm ocean waters embraced me.

• The water was warm from the sun's heat.

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CCSS.L.6.5A