WorksheetsPersonification
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified?
The forest
The wind
A person whispering
The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers. What is being personified?
The gardener
The flowers
The crops
As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us. What is being personified?
The sun
The desert
The people walking
Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic. What is being personified?
The clock
Time
The room
Tim
The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song. What is being personified?
The trees
The chainsaw
The song
The lumberjack
When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her. What is being personified?
Monica
The shoe store
The high heels
When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains. What is being personified?
The patriots
The Redcoat Army
Freedom
The fruited plains
As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, "Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk." She looked at her classmates accusingly. What is being personified?
Alice
The pencil
The desk
Her classmates
Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom's grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable. What is being personified?
The suitcase
The wallpaper
The gift
William knew that he shouldn't have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar. What is personified?
The cookie jar
The cookies
Guilt
"The camera loves me!"
Which of the following sentences is an example of personification?
The slimy eel slithered through the seaweed.
The stand of trees was a festival of color that fall.
The dandelions stood tall, proudly surveying the rest of the yard.
The snails crept along the sidewalk, moving as slowly as a glacier.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
Clouds were strolling through the sky.
The sky was filled with clouds.
Clouds form when moist air rises upwards.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
The water in the ocean was extremely warm.
The warm ocean waters embraced me.
The water was warm from the sun's heat.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
The statues, atop their pedestals, stared down at me.
The statues were built on pedestals.
The statues were made of bronze and marble.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
It rains frequently in April.
The rains in April nourish the growing plants.
April is a very weepy month.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
The cattails waved goodbye to the departing dragonflies.
The cattails' leaves bounced up and down as the dragonflies flew away.
The cattails are full of fluffy seeds. Dragonflies land on them.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
The engine clanked as the old truck drove uphill.
The engine was old and beginning to rust.
The engine made a clanking noise as the old truck fought its way uphill.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
Shiny new shoes peeked out from under his freshly pressed pants.
Shiny new shoes were visible under his freshly ironed pants.
Shiny new shoes were polished and clean.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
The scruffy puppy's eyes begged us to pick him up.
We couldn't resist the terrier's puppy-dog eyes.
The puppy looked up at us in an adorable way.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
The breeze cause our laundry to move back and forth on the clothesline.
The laundry was hanging on the clothesline to dry in the breeze.
Our laundry swooshed back and forth on the clothesline, tickled by the breeze.
Which of these sentences contains personification?
Vines crept slowly up the sides of the birdhouse.
Slow-growing vines soon covered the sides of the birdhouse.
Vines were growing slowly next to the birdhouse.
Which statement is true?
Personification is the act of comparing something without like or as.
Personification is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Personification is the act of giving a non living being an human trait.
Personification is exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
