Personification Quiz

What is the definition of personification?

• Personification is a figure of speech.

• Personification is a type of dance.

• Personification is a type of plant.

• Personification is a type of food.

Which of the following is an example of personification in literature? A) The wind whispered through the trees. B) The sun is shining brightly. C) The cat meowed loudly. D) The river flowed gently.

• B

• A

• C

• D

In the poem 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost, which line uses personification? A) 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.' B) 'And sorry I could not travel both.' C) 'And both that morning equally lay.' D) 'I took the one less traveled by.'

What is the purpose of using personification in literature?

• To make non-human objects or ideas more relatable to readers

• To create a sense of empathy towards non-human objects or ideas

• To emphasize the significance of non-human objects or ideas

• To give human qualities to non-human objects or ideas

Which of the following is NOT an example of personification? A) The flowers danced in the breeze. B) The stars winked at me from the sky. C) The book fell off the shelf. D) The moonlight kissed the ocean waves.

• B

• A

• D

• C

In the poem 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe, which line uses personification? A) 'Once upon a midnight dreary.' B) 'Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'' C) 'And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.' D) 'And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor.'

• D

• C

• B

• A

True or False: Personification is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.

• False

• Personification is a type of metaphor

• Personification is a type of simile

• True

Which of the following is an example of personification in the sentence? 'The thunder roared angrily in the distance.' A) Thunder roared B) The distance C) The thunder D) Angerly

• A) Thunder roared

• D) Angerly

• C) The thunder

• B) The distance

In the poem 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats, which line uses personification? A) 'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains.' B) 'Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!' C) 'Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget.' D) 'The weariness, the fever, and the fret.'

• A

• B

• C

• D

What effect does personification have on the reader?