Irony & Personification Quiz

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

"As Campbell twirled, her headband angrily slapped Mrs. Brennan across the face."
What human characteristic is being given?

• Twirling
• Dancing
• Flying
• Slapping

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"The table played a cruel joke on Mrs. Cook when it collapsed as she placed her coffee on it."
What human characteristic is being given?

• Playing
• Collapsing
• Not liking coffee
• Tabling

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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.L.6.5A

"After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony."
What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips
• The cookie
• Anthony
• Guilt

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CCSS.L.6.5A

When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains. What is being personified?

• The patriots

• The Redcoat Army

• Freedom

• The fruited plains

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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

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• The statues, atop their pedestals, stared down at me.

• The statues were built on pedestals.

• The statues were made of bronze and marble.

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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

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• The cattails waved goodbye to the departing dragonflies.

• The cattails' leaves bounced up and down as the dragonflies flew away.

• The cattails are full of fluffy seeds. Dragonflies land on them.

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CCSS.L.6.5A