Personification
What is personification?
❖ When human qualities are given to an
object or animal.
❖ PERSONification
Examples
The sun danced happily in the afternoon sky.
Examples
As we drove away, the abandoned house
looked sad.
Where do we see personification?
❖ Children’s stories
❖ Children’s television shows
❖ Disney movies
How many examples can you find?
Why use personification?
❖ Gives audience deeper understanding
❖ Affects how the audience feels
Emotion
❖ The sun danced happily in the afternoon sky.
❖ As we drove away, the abandoned house
looked sad.
Emotion
Why use emotion in
stories?
Identify Personification in passages
Go to Google Classroom.
Open up document called Personification
Passages.
Read the passages and answer the questions
with your group.
Your turn!
In groups, you will create examples of personification.
Each person in your group must create a sentence
personifying the item at your station.
After everyone creates a sentence, share them with
each other.

Intro to Personification | Alex Noudelman