Personification and Imagery

Vivid description of things seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted

• Theme

• Sensory Details 

• Imagery 

• Sound Devices

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
The girl could smell the fresh lavender as she glided through the beautiful garden of delicate flowers. 

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Snow speaks to the people; it’s falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white, sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.
   - John Milton

• Simile

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Personifcation

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

“Only the daisy trees were serene… they ignored the men and continued to rock the diamondbacks that slept in their arms. It took the river to persuade them that indeed the world was altered.”

• Allusion

• Simile

• Irony

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.

• Allusion

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Which literary device is used when human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is the term for descriptive language that appeals to the senses?

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the literary device in the sentence: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A