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

What words from this poem show personification?

"I think that my house misses me,

when I'm gone, on a trip on my own,

the windows stare blankly,

into the street,

and the roof wears a very sad frown."

• a trip on my own

• windows stare blankly

• roof wears a very sad frown

Which sentence has an example of personification?

• Her brown hair moved with the breeze.

• The boy ran like a cheetah across the playground.

• My pencil danced across the page as I wrote my personal narrative.

• The girl was as beautiful as an angel.

"My computer throws a fit every time I use it," is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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.