Personification and Imagery

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't

• By expressing how the author is feeling

• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see

• By telling the mood

What is personification

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• comparing 2 unlike things

• a word that makes you hear sound

The stars danced in the night.

• Not personification

• Personification

The brownies were calling my name.

• Personification

• Not Personification

The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.'
What object is being personified in the sentence?

(a)  

• Clouds

• Winked

• Say

• Moon

"You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You’re paralyzed
‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about to strike."

• Imagery
• Personification 
• Idiom
• Alliteration

New York City never sleeps.

• Personification

• Not Personification

The flowers danced in the breeze.

• Personification

• Not Personification

Nathan's cat dances with excitement when he comes home from school.

• Personification

• Not Personification

What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight

• Sound

• Touch 

• Taste