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Personification is a type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things. It helps writers create vivid pictures in the reader's mind by allowing objects, ideas, places, or animals to perform human actions or take on human qualities. Some examples of personification include describing a sailboat dancing across the water, flames eating at a burning house, and trees bending before a storm.
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This document defines and provides examples of personification, which is giving human traits to non-living objects. It explains that personification creates word pictures by describing things like sailboats dancing, flames eating hungrily, and trees bending meekly. The document provides sentences using personification and asks readers to identify the objects being personified. It encourages practicing personifying other objects like stars, grass, and night. Poets are noted to use personification to create vivid images with words.
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Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
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Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
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Personification
- 1. PERSONIFICATION Human Characteristics
- 2. EXPLANATION Sometimes a writer will give human characteristics to nonhuman things. Objects, ideas, places or animals may be given human qualities. They may perform human actions. This type of figurative language is called personification. It helps the writer create an exciting picture in the reader’s mind. Map Tap Personification (figurative 2 language)
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- 4. PRACTICE • Directions: • Read the sentence, think about the meaning, notice how personification creates a word picture. Identify the personification in each sentence. 4. The fog crept silently into the valley. 5. The tree fought the wind with its branches 6. The computer devoured information all day long. 7. The hikers left the meadow and were swallowed by the forest. Map Tap Personification (figurative 4 language)
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