Personification & Onomatopoeia

What is personification?

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which is an example of personification?

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse
• The sun is like a light bulb
• The Sun smiled at us
• I want to be awesome

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her."
What is being personified?

• High Heels
• The store

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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

What is being personified?

• the night

• the forest

• the wind

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

What is being personified?

• gardener

• manure

• crops

• flowers

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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

What is being personified?

• lumberjack

• trees

• chainsaw

• song

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An onomatopoeia is also known as what?

• An action word
• A descriptive word
• A sound word
• A statement

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Find the onomatopoeic word.

• Graceful

• Swooshed

• Into

• No onomatopoeic word

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A