How do you make a mental image stronger when you’re reading?

1. How do you make a mental image stronger when you’re reading?

2. In this lesson, you will learn to make a mental image stronger by finding examples of personification.

3. Descriptive words in poetry put pictures in our minds.

4. Thinking too literally

5. Personification is when a writer give a human trait to something that is not human.

6. What’s happening here that only people can do? Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Rossetti The tree is bowing like a person.

7. People bow out of respect. I think the trees are bowing because they respect the power of the wind. Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Rossetti When, why, or how do people normally do this?

8. 1 • Find an example of personification. 2 • Ask yourself, “When, why, or how do people normally do this?” 3 Write your new ideas about your mental image.

9. In this lesson, you have learned how to make a mental image stronger by finding examples of personification.

10. The Sky is Low The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A traveling 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. Emily Dickinson • Can you find an example of personification in the poem, “The Sky is Low” by Emily Dickinson?

11. Read through the poem ““The Sky is Low” by Emily Dickinson again. • Find other examples of personification in the poem. • What conclusions can you draw?

12. Write your own poem that uses personification. • How does personification make your poem better or more interesting to read?

13. Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Rossetti • Find another example of personification in “Who Has Seen the Wind?” • How do you know it’s personification?