The document defines personification as attributing human characteristics to non-human things for artistic or literary effect. It provides the example of describing lightning dancing to the sound of thunder. Songs and books are mentioned as other mediums that use personification, as well as Disney movies. A poem by William Blake is included that personifies sunflowers.

1. Personification

2. Personification It is the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc., as for literary or artistic effect. Example: The lightning danced to the sound of thunder.

3. Disney Loves Personification http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h3Cvs1caeA

4. What about songs that use personification? Can you think of any books that use it? What other movies use personification?

5. Poem Using Personification Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room. "Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"said the sunflowers, shining with dew."Our traveling habits have tired us.Can you give us a room with a view?" They arranged themselves at the windowand counted the steps of the sun,and they both took root in the carpetwhere the topaz tortoises run. William Blake(1757-1827)

6. Sources http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/alicepic/disney-movie/flowers-2.jpg http://www.ubsolutions.biz/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lightning_landscape_wallpaper.jpg http://www.thewallpapers.org/photo/12658/151.jpg http://www.presidiacreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/disney-robin-hood-and-little-john1280.jpg http://thecia.com.au/reviews/s/images/shark-tale-0.jpg http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personificationclassics.html