Personification

What is being personified?

• The soldier

• Time

• A unit

• The stray hounds

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What human characteristic is being given?

• Playing

• Collapsing

• Not liking coffee

• Tabling

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What human characteristic is being given?

• Whistling

• Happiness

• Walking

• Hiking

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is personification?

• Figurative language that a writer uses to make NON-HUMAN objects, concepts, and animals act like people.

• Figurative language that a writer uses to create mental images in the reader's mind through descriptive details.

• Figurative language that compares two different things using the words "like" and "as".

• Figurative language that compares two different things through their similar qualities or traits.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The bushes bowed down and greeted us as we walked by after the storm.

What is being personified?

• bowed down

• greeted us

• the bushes

• after the storm

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

When Rosa walked through the store, each new pair of high heel shoes called out to her.

What is being personified?

• Rosa

• The store

• Called out to her

• The high heel shoes

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of these sentences is an example of personification?

• You are the apple of my eye.

• The storm was angry.

• Sally sold sea shells on the sea shore.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Select ALL of the correct examples of personification.

• The clouds cried on the stormy night.

• Here beautiful eyes are as dark as the midnight sky.

• The train's wheels screamed.

• When my mom yells she sounds like a roaring lion and it frightens me.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The emoji smiled at me.

What word is being personified?

• Emoji

• Smiled

• Me

• At

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The piano sang a mournful song.

Is this an example of personification?

• Personification

• NOT Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A