Personification

What is the definition of personification?

• an author gives human traits or characteristics to an animal or object

• an author's way of developing a character through the character's words, thoughts, and actions

• concrete details of a story that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste

• the perspective from which the author presents the actions and characters of a story

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

At night, the wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.

What is being personified?

• the night

• the forest

• the wind

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing that he was making happy flowers.

What is being personified?

• gardener

• manure

• crops

• flowers

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.

What is being personified?

• desert

• sun

• us

• scorching

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.

What is being personified?

• time

• room

• Tim

• clock

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The wind howled in the night.

• Personification

• Not

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The girl's cheek were red like Santa Clause

• Personification

• Not

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The moon danced across the lake.

• Personification

• Not

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

She was as busy as a bee

• Personification

• Not

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

My car coughed as it chugged up the hill

• Personification

• Not

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A