Personification Worksheet 5

Personification Worksheet 5 Directions: In each sentence, an object or idea is personified. Identify the object or idea that is being personified and explain which human trait or action is applied to the object or idea. Personification: a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or characteristics. 1. Dew-drops sing to the garden stones, The robin chirps in the chinaberry tree Repeating three clear tones. What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The dew-drops are being personified. They are given the ability to sing. 2. It called me in the sunrise and the dew, At noon and twilight, sadly, hungrily, The jealous City, whispering always -- "Home!" What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The City is being personified. It is given the ability to whisper and the qualities of sadness, hunger, and jealousy. 3. I thought how she would have cried For my warm familiar arms And the sense of me by her side. The wind was wailing aloud. What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The wind is being personified. It is given the ability to wail. 4. Down by the railroad in a green valley By dancing water, there he stayed awhile Singing, and three men with him, listeners, What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The water is being personified. It is given the ability to dance. 5. Strange little tune so thin and rare Like scents of roses of long ago, Quavering lightly upon the strings Of a violin, and dying there What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The tune is being personified. It is described as thin, quavering, and dying. 6. Beheld the enchanted island far away-Half hidden in the twilight low On the horizon like a lazy cloud, What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The cloud is being personified. It is given the quality of laziness. 7. Great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, Stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation Words are being personified. They are given the ability of writing, uttering, and standing helplessly. 8. picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The daisies are being personified. They are given the ability to bully. 9. A tree bends darkly where the wall looms high; Its tortured branches, like a grisly hand, Clutch at the sky. What is being personified? ________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The tree is being personified. It is given the ability to clutch, also the branches are described as tortured. 10. Grey towers rise from gloom and underneath-Black-barred and strong-The snarling windows guard their ancient wrong; Answer Explanation The windows are being personified. They are given the ability to snarl and the agency to guard.