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Personification

Personification. What word do you notice inside personification? How does this word clue you into what personification might mean?. Personification. Giving human qualities, feeling, action, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects. The Sky is Low-Emily Dickinson.

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Personification

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  1. Personification What word do you notice inside personification? How does this word clue you into what personification might mean?

  2. Personification • Giving human qualities, feeling, action, or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.

  3. The Sky is Low-Emily Dickinson • THE sky is low, the clouds are mean, • A travelling flake of snow • Across a barn or through a rut • Debates if it will go. • A narrow wind complains all day • How some one treated him; • Nature, like us, is sometimes caught • Without her diadem.

  4. What kind of words does she use to set the mood of the poem? • How does she intensify the image of an unpleasant day by using personification? • What does she compare nature to? Why does she do this?

  5. Examples of Personification • My smile shouts, “I’m not awake yet!” • The wind whispers like a tree in the breeze. • Cars dance across the icy road. • The run down, destroyed house appeared depressed. • She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door. • Time flew by and before we knew it, the school day was over. • At the same time each morning, my alarm springs to life. • The fire ran wild all over town.

  6. Verbs • Boil, Swing, Dance, Shout, Cry, Tells, Shows, Reminds, Teaches, Listens, Remembers, Brings, Looks, Dreams, Guides, Takes • Example: Candle/ Dances- • The birthday candle dances on the cake like a beautiful ballerina.

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