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Poetic Device #12!

Poetic Device #12!. PERSONFICATION. Personification  is giving human qualities, feelings, actions or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects. Personification: An example. The windows winked as I walked down the street Wink = Human action + W indow = Inanimate O bject. =

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Poetic Device #12!

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  1. Poetic Device #12!

  2. PERSONFICATION • Personification is giving human qualities, feelings, actions or characteristics to inanimate (non-living) objects.

  3. Personification: An example • The windows winked as I walked down the street • Wink = Human action + • Window = Inanimate Object. = • PERSONIFICATION!

  4. Personification: An example • Those shoes are speaking to me...

  5. Personification: An example • MY COMPUTER HATES ME!!!

  6. Personification Why might personification be used in poetry?

  7. Personification in Poetry The Wind I hear the wind talking to mewhispering in my earPlaying with my hairI'm running its behind me cheering me onThen it pulls me back to play It's angry chasing me Blowing hardNow it took my paper to see what I wrote It's humming a tuneThen rips a tree out of the groundIt's angry againI'm running for my life I'm at home on my bedIt makes a stormBlowing trees against my windowYelling at me telling me to come outsideI refuseIt stopsIt's gone

  8. Activity!With your buddy, you have five minutes to come up with some quality personification! (Take turns writing!) kneel jump skip jog sprint cough wink blinknodbendwaveflauntsneezeamblethreatenact fightscratchamblethreatenact fightscratchwigglewrigglegrindlie shake  dance nudgewalk  run point punch  dance tiptoe knock walk howl fly glare sing whisper weep devour clap protest creep sad happy hopeful doubting empathetic hungry paranoid pity confused angry homesick guilty frustrated embarrassed ashamed regretful stressed worries apprehensive distressed uneasy alarmed frightened panicked shocked enthusiastic caring obsessed gloomy miserable alienated humiliated

  9. Personification: use it in your poetry!

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