Personification

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 sentence has an example of personification?

• Her brown hair moved with the breeze.

• The boy ran like a cheetah across the playground.

• My pencil danced across the page as I wrote my personal narrative.

• The girl was as beautiful as an angel.

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

Match the figurative language device to its definition.

5. Personification​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• e. Giving non-humans human characteristics

• b. Repetition of the same consonant sound

• d. Comparing by saying one thing is another

• c. A commonly used figurative phrase

• f. Comparing using the words like or as

• a. An extreme exaggeration

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7.9d

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics...​ (a)  

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Symbol

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7.9D

When an author gives human characteristics to non-human objects, this is an example of: (a)  

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals.

(a)  

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Giving human qualities to animals or objects is (a)  

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.'
What object is being personified in the sentence?

(a)  

• Clouds

• Winked

• Say

• Moon