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Personification. What is PERSONification ?. A figure of speech that gives a nonhuman object or idea human qualities or abilities. Examples of Personification. “Milk’s Favorite Cookie”. The trees danced in the wind. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell. Personification in Poetry.
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What is PERSONification? • A figure of speech that gives a nonhuman object or idea human qualities or abilities
Examples of Personification “Milk’s Favorite Cookie”
The trees danced in the wind. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
Personification in Poetry April Rain Song Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain. By Langston Hughes http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/hughes/4.html
Personification in Music • 1st time: Just listen! • 2nd time: Underline examples of personification
What did you find? After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers Mary
A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife And the wind, it cries Mary
The traffic lights they turn up blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed The tiny island sags downstream ‘Cause the life that lived is, is dead And the wind screams Mary
Will the wind ever remember The names it has blown in the past And with his crutch, it’s old age, and it's wisdom It whispers no, this will be the last And the wind cries Mary
Now it is time to make your own! Green: verbs Yellow: nouns