Personification

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Personification

• What word do you notice inside personification?
• How does this word clue you into what
  personification might mean?

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Personification

• Giving human qualities, feeling, action, or
  characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.

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The Sky is Low-Emily Dickinson

• THE sky is low, the clouds are mean,
• A travelling flake of snow
• Across a barn or through a rut
• Debates if it will go.
• A narrow wind complains all day
• How some one treated him
• Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
• Without her diadem.

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• What kind of words does she use to set the mood
  of the poem?
• How does she intensify the image of an unpleasant
  day by using personification?
• What does she compare nature to? Why does she do
  this?

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Examples of Personification

• My smile shouts, Im not awake yet!
• The wind whispers like a tree in the breeze.
• Cars dance across the icy road.
• The run down, destroyed house appeared depressed.
• She did not realize that opportunity was knocking
  at her door.
• Time flew by and before we knew it, the school
  day was over.
• At the same time each morning, my alarm springs
  to life.
• The fire ran wild all over town.

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Verbs

• Boil, Swing, Dance, Shout, Cry, Tells, Shows,
  Reminds, Teaches, Listens, Remembers, Brings,
  Looks, Dreams, Guides, Takes
• Example Candle/ Dances-
• The birthday candle dances on the cake like a
  beautiful ballerina.