Personification Worksheet 7

Personification Worksheet 7 Directions: In each sentence, an object or idea is personified. Identify the object or idea that is personified and explain which human trait or action is given to the object or idea. Personification: a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or characteristics. 1. Out of the window a sea of green trees Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer; They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!" But I cannot answer. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The trees are being personified. They are given the ability to lift, beckon, and call. 2. Illusion's laughter, fancy's tears, The mimic loves of yesternight, On empty stages of the years Awake in the dim light. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation Illusion, fancy, and stages are being personified. Illusion is given the ability to laugh. Fancy is in possession of tears, and the stages are described as awake. 3. Who's the jester? He is one, Who behind the scenes hath been, Caught Life with his make-up off, Found him but a harlequin Cast to play a tragic part-And the two laughed, heart to heart! What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation Life is being personified. It is given the ability to wear make-up and described as a harlequin. 4. The flower of day grew old and withered, Night with a sigh sat down beside her loom Winding her shuttle with a silver thread. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation Night is being personified. It is given the ability to sit and to weave. 5. The herded pines commune, and have deep thoughts, A secret they assemble to discuss, When the sun drops behind their trunks which glare Like grates What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The pines are being personified. They are given the ability to herd, commune, think deeply, and discuss. 6. Unkempt about those hedges blows An English unofficial rose; Here tulips bloom as they are told; What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The tulips are being personified. They are given the ability to follow instruction, something with which many students have difficulties. 7. Some strange and exquisite desire Has thrilled this flowering almond tree Whose branches shake so wistfully, What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The almond tree is being personified. It is given the ability to feel thrills and to shake wistfully. 8. Bare of the grudging grass, and bare Of the tall forest's careless shade, What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The grass, the forest, and the shade are being personified. The grass is described as grudging, the forest is described as tall, and the shade is given the quality of carelessness. 9. Gentle and brown, above the pool, And laughs the immortal river still Under the mill, under the mill. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The river is being personified. It is given the ability to laugh. It may also have been described as gentle. 10. I saw a slowly stepping train-Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar-Following in files across a twilit plain A strange and mystic form the foremost bore What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation A train is being personified. It is given the ability to step and is described as having brows and eyes and being bent. .