Personification

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

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

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

• The sun

• The desert

• The people walking

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

What is the definition of personification?

• an author gives human traits or characteristics to an animal or object

• an author's way of developing a character through the character's words, thoughts, and actions

• concrete details of a story that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste

• the perspective from which the author presents the actions and characters of a story

Which of these sentences has an example of personification?

• My alarm clock screamed and woke me up this morning.

• The boy smiled at the turtle in the pond.

• The cat licked my face as I tried to read my book.

• He quickly climbed the mountain like a bighorn sheep.

What is being personified?

• the night

• the forest

• the wind

The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing that he was making happy flowers.

What is being personified?

• gardener

• manure

• crops

• flowers

What is being personified?

• desert

• sun

• us

• scorching

Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.

What is being personified?

• time

• room

• Tim

• clock