Personification

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which is an example of personification?

• I am so hungry I could eat a horse
• The sun is like a light bulb
• The Sun smiled at us
• I want to be awesome

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What's the meaning of this personification?
"The camera loves me!"

• Photography is one of my hobbies.
• I own an expensive camera.
• Photos of me are always really good. 
• I like to visit art museums.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers. What is being personified?

• The gardener

• The flowers

• The crops

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony."
What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips
• The cookie
• Anthony
• Guilt

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• The sun

• The desert

• The people walking

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains. What is being personified?

• The patriots

• The Redcoat Army

• Freedom

• The fruited plains

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?

• The star I wished on winked at me.

• The trout danced on the water's surface.

• The angry mirror showed every wrinkle on his face.

• The sun was warm on the child's face.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The sun down on the Earth.

• smiled

• laughed

• shone

• showed

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of the following sentences is an example of personification?

• The slimy eel slithered through the seaweed.

• The stand of trees was a festival of color that fall.

• The dandelions stood tall, proudly surveying the rest of the yard.

• The snails crept along the sidewalk, moving as slowly as a glacier.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4