Personification

What is personification?

• A person quality given to a non-living thing.

• Comparing 2 things using like or as.

• Comparing 2 things using is, are, was, were.

• An exaggeration.

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Which of these is personification?

• Time is money.

• The flowers danced in the breeze.

• I had pizza for lunch.

• Timmy smiled at me during math.

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Is it personification?

Time stood still.

• True
• False

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Is it personification?

The rain pounded on the windows.

• True
• False

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Is it personification?

I was dying from laughter.

• True
• False

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Is it personification?

She was as happy as a clam.

• True
• False

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Is it personification?

The car coughed and sputtered.

• True
• False

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Is it personification?

The storm roared outside.

• True
• False

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The storm roared outside means...

• The storm is alive.

• The storm was very loud.

• It was a light rainstorm.

• Trees fell down.

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Why is "Time stood still," personification?

• Time is a living thing.

• Time is non-living and can't stand.

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