Personification

Personification Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas). For example: The window winked at me.

The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is a non-living object. • TaDa!! Personification!

Here are some personification examples. • The sailboat danced gracefully past us. • The flames ate hungrily at the burning house. • The once-proud trees bent meekly before the storm. • The broad, flat rock lay sunning itselfby the stream.

Notice how personification creates a word picture. Your Turn. Can you recognize the personification in each sentence below? • The fog crept silently into the valley. • The tree fought the wind with its branches • The computer devoured information all day long. • The hikers left the meadow and were swallowed by the forest.

Let’s practice…..Look at the words below. Try to give each word a quality of a human and write a sentence in your writers journal.Now quickly draw the literal version of one of your sentences on the page- share with your tablemates. Stars Grass Table Night

What is the object being personified and the meaning of the personification in these sentences? • The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves. • The microwave timer told me it was time to turn my TV dinner. • The video camera observed the whole scene. • The strawberries seemed to sing, "Eat me first!"

Poets often use this form of Figurative Language to create exciting visual images with words.

What characteristics does this snow have? SNOW Snow speaks to the people itsfalling above in the glooming sunlight.Its white sparkling voiceechoes as it falls throughthe air. By Jake

"Summer Grass" by Carl Sandburg Summergrass aches and whispers It wants something: it calls and sings; it pours out wishesto the overhead stars. The rain hears; the rain answers;the rain is slowcoming; The rain wets the face of the grass.

Personification