Personification

Use personification in a poem about a tree.

• The tree slept through the night, its trunk unmoving.

• The tree stood still, its leaves never moving.

• The tree was silent, its roots firmly planted in the ground.

• The tree danced in the wind, its branches reaching out like arms.

Create an example of personification using an animal.

• The bird recited poetry to the flowers.

• The dog sang a lullaby to the baby.

• The wind whispered through the trees.

• The cat danced in the moonlight.

Differentiate between personification and simile.

• Personification is a type of metaphor, while simile is a type of hyperbole

• Personification is comparing two things using 'like' or 'as', while simile is giving human characteristics to non-human things

• Personification is a type of alliteration, while simile is a type of onomatopoeia

• Personification is giving human characteristics to non-human things, while simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

The flowers danced in the wind.

• Personification

• Not Personification

The last piece of pizza called my name.

• Personification

• Not Personification

The sun glared down at me from the sky.

• Down

• Glared

• Sun

• Sky

The phone awakened with a mighty ring.

• Awakened

• Mighty

• Ring

• Phone

Identify the subject of the personification and the human characteristic it was given in the sentence:

The tornado ran through town without a care.

Type "tornado ran" as the answer (with no quotation marks)

Identify the subject of the personification and the human characteristic it was given in the sentence:

The butterflies in the meadow seemed to dance with one another.

Identify the subject of the personification and the human characteristic it was given in the sentence: The thunder yelled angrily in the distance.