Personification Worksheet 6 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. Your little voice Over the wires came leaping and I felt suddenly dizzy What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation Your voice is personified. It is given the ability to leap. 2. Love built himself a house, And whoso entered in, Love bade him stay, Nor ever from that feast to come away Dissatisfied or weary of the fare Love set him there. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation Love is being personified. It is given the ability to build houses, bid others to stay, and to prepare feasts. 3. While through the windows, steel-barred, stern and tall, Pale daylight greets us like a plaintive song. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The windows and the daylight are being personified. The windows are described as stern and tall and the daylight is given the ability to greet. 4. And, as of old, in the horizon-sky, The sun can find a lovely place to die. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The sun is being personified. It is given the ability to die. 5. The nights went by like the moaning wind And the days like drifting snow. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The wind is being personified. It is given the ability to moan. 6. Then you came with flowers crowned and sun-kissed hair. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The sun is personified. It is given the ability to kiss. 7. Wasting the golden hours indoors, Washing windows and scrubbing floors, While happy winds go laughing by. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The wind is being personified. It is given the quality of happiness. 8. Over the snow my creaking feet Disturbed the slumbering village street What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The village street is being personified. It is given ability to be disturbed. 9. They danced until the shy moon looking down Deemed herself lost above some Grecian glade; What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The moon is being personified. It is given the ability to look down and to dream about Greece. 10. Beyond the cliffs brown fishing boats go by Under the reach of the wide laughing sky. What is being personified? _______________________________________________________________ Which human trait or quality is given?______________________________________________________ Answer Explanation The sky is being personified. It is given the ability to reach and to laugh.