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Personification Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
"The wind whistled a happy tune as I walked along the hard mountain trail."
What human characteristic is being given?
a)
Whistling
b)
Happiness
c)
Walking
d)
Hiking
2.
What is personification?
a)
The same beginning sound repeated
b)
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
c)
A word that is a sound
d)
An exaggeration
3.
What's the meaning of this personification?
"The camera loves me!"
a)
Photography is one of my hobbies.
b)
I own an expensive camera.
c)
Photos of me are always really good. 
d)
I like to visit art museums.
4.

As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us. What is being personified?

a)

The sun

b)

The desert

c)

The people walking

5.

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?

a)

The suitcase

b)

The wallpaper

c)

The gift

6.

Which sentence has an example of personification?

a)

Her brown hair moved with the breeze.

b)

The boy ran like a cheetah across the playground.

c)

My pencil danced across the page as I wrote my personal narrative.

d)

The girl was as beautiful as an angel.

7.
"The table played a cruel joke on Mrs. Cook when it collapsed as she placed her coffee on it."
What human characteristic is being given?
a)
Playing
b)
Collapsing
c)
Not liking coffee
d)
Tabling
8.

The heavy hail dented cars and cracked windows.


Is this an example of personification?

a)

Personification

b)

NOT Personification

9.

Which one of these examples is NOT being personified.

a)

The bird was as tiny as a ladybug.

b)

The glass seemed to cry out, "Don't slobber on me".

c)

The sun smiled on me as it warmed the back of my legs.

d)

The answer said '' Pick me! Pick me!''

10.

Check ALL sentences that show personification.

a)

The bushes bowed down and greeted us as we walked up the path during the storm.

b)

The guitar sang a joyful tune that made my feet bop.

c)

The trees dressed up in red and gold to celebrate the start of autumn.

d)

My baby sister is always hungry and whining for food.