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

"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

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

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

• High Heels
• The store

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

What is being personified?

• the night

• the forest

• the wind

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

What is being personified?

• gardener

• manure

• crops

• flowers

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

What is being personified?

• lumberjack

• trees

• chainsaw

• song

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.

An onomatopoeia is also known as what?

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

Find the onomatopoeic word.

• Graceful

• Swooshed

• Into

• No onomatopoeic word