Personification
The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.
1)What is being personified?
2)Which human trait or quality is given?
1) The wind
The wind is given the quality of whispering
Her hair is bone white.
Metaphor
I’m feelin’ like a freak on a leash
Simile
The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers
1)What is being personified?
2)Which human trait or quality is given?
1)The flowers
They are given the quality of happiness
Ideas are wings…
Metaphor
He has a heart of gold.
Metaphor
The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
1)What is being personified?
2)Which human trait or quality is given?
1) The Chainsaw
It is given the ability Of Singing
She was driving like a bat out of hell.
Simile
Reality is an enemy
Metaphor
When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains.
1)What is being personified?
2)Which human trait or quality is given?
1) Freedom
Freedom is given the ability of ringing
He is the sun of my sky
He is very important and I need him to survive
hard as a rock
Extremely thick and heavy, so as to make it impossible to move
. As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, “Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk.” She looked at her classmates accusingly.
1)What is being personified?
2)Which human trait or quality is given?
1) The pencil
It is giving the ability of walking
A heart gold
He has a kind and loving personality
slithers like a snake
The football player slithered like a snake as he ran for the touchdown.
Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom’s grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable.
The wallpaper
10. All of her life, Margaret wanted to be rich. She longed to know the comfort of having others wait on her. When she grew up and got married, greed came knocking on the door of her new home. Margaret always wanted more, always looked elsewhere.
1)What is being personified?
2)Which human trait or quality is given?
It is given the abilities of poking and chewing