PERSONIFICATION

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PERSONIFICATION

• One of the five types of Figurative Language

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What is Personification?

• PERSONIFICATION- giving objects, qualities,
  ideas, or colors human traits or characteristics.
  

The worried peas glanced at the boiling water.
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PERSONification

• The word personification helps us remember what
  it meansmaking things seem like PEOPLE.

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4 Ways to Create Personification

• Use VERBS that describe human actions
• Ex. Love remembers
• Use ADJECTIVES that are generally used to
  describe people.
• Ex. Worried peas

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Ways to Create Personification

• Refer to object using personal pronouns.
• Ex. She waved(referring to the ocean)
• Give object human body parts.
• Ex. War raised its weary head.

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Give an Example

• Nouns
• - Bear - Glass
• - Table - Night
• Example The SUN opened her eyes and stretched
  its warmth

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Identify the Personified Object

• The wind sang her mournful song.
• The buzzer screamed all through the halls.
• The camera observed the whole disaster.
• The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.
• The dishes danced on the shelves during the
  earthquake.
• The engine coughed and sputtered during the
  blizzard.

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Create Your Own

• Assignment Write 5 complete sentences with at
  least ONE example of personification in EACH.

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Mirror by Sylvia Plath

• I am silver and exact.
• I have no preconceptions.
• Whatever I see I swallow immediately.
• Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
• I am not cruel, only truthful.

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Time to Think

• Pick an object that you will write a
  personification poem about.
• Now go back to the 4 Ways to Create
  Personification and Brainstorm Ideas for your
  object.