This document provides information about personification, including examples and an activity. It defines personification as portraying a non-human thing as doing something human. Examples given include death being personified and gambling being described as having claws. Students are asked to identify personification in a passage from Romeo and Juliet and to write their own personification poem in the style of Shakespeare.

1. What’s up doc?
You may be wondering what is a rabbit
doing taking and walking on two legs ?
That’s because I am being PERSONIFIED!
PERSONIFICATION IS A SPECIAL TYPE OF
METAPHOR ….
Like this guy – personifing DEATH
Check out this guy!
You will learn about him in the presentation on
PERSONIFICATION about to begin.
PERSONIFICATION: A SPECIAL TYPE OF METAPHOR

2. PERSONIFICATION
Definition:
When you portray a thing, idea, or an animal
doing something only humans can do.
"Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon""Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon"
Why is this an example of personification?

3. "The only monster here is the gambling monster
that has enslaved your mother! I call him
gambling and it's time to snatch your mother
from his neon claws!"
((Homer Simpson in The Simpsons))
Can “GAMBLING”
really ”enslave” ?
Does “GAMBLING”
have claws?
PersonificationPersonification
is giving human traits to non-human things.is giving human traits to non-human things.
Human trait ?_________________ Non Human thing ?____________CLAWS/ENSLAVINGCLAWS/ENSLAVING GAMBLINGGAMBLING

4. WHY IS THIS PERSONIFICATION?
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
ACT TWO SCENE 3 “Romeo and Juliet”
Human trait ?_________________ Non Human thing ?____________CARECAREKEEP WATCHKEEP WATCH

5. Use your worksheet to Identity examples of
Personification in this excerpt from
“Romeo and Juliet”
ACT 2 Scene 3 “Romeo and Juliet”ACT 2 Scene 3 “Romeo and Juliet”
The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reelsAnd flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels:From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels:
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eyeNow, ere the sun advance his burning eye
The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry,The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry,

6. WRITE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN
PERSONIFICATION POEM
USE YOUR HANDOUTUSE YOUR HANDOUT

7. WRITE YOUR OWN SHAKESPEAREAN
PERSONIFICATION POEM
Choose a word from List A
Choose a word from List B
Write this word next to the word from
List A.
List A List B
sun tells
guides
moon shows
takes
stars reminds
sky teaches
sea listens
stone remembers
night brings
mountain looks
dawn dances
morning dreams
EXAMPLE: stone listens
NOW MAKE YOUR OWN POEM
Write five sentences and put them together
each on its own line.
EXAMPLEEXAMPLE::
Night reminds me of yesterday.Night reminds me of yesterday.
The sun listens to the messages of theThe sun listens to the messages of the
clouds.clouds.
Moon, look for me in the fields.Moon, look for me in the fields.
Sea, guide me to you.Sea, guide me to you.
Dawn bring me to the new day.Dawn bring me to the new day.
WRITE YOUR PERSONIFICATION POEM
BELOW.
________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
_____________________________________
___
NOW GIVE IT A - “TITLE”
STEP ONESTEP ONE:: STEP TWOSTEP TWO::